TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dowd,Douglas Fitzgerald
TI  - Inequality and the global economic crisis 
SN  - 9780745329437
AV  - HB3722 .D69 2009
U1  - 339.2 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto 
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Equality
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Big business
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index
N2  - Inequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme. Written by economist Douglas Dowd, this book shows that the present banking crisis is the result of the growth of inequality across the globe. The expansion of the financial sector has brought incredible riches to a select few, at the expense of the majority. Inequality was ignored, or described as a necessary aspect of a booming global economy. With the collapse of the world markets, the fallacy of this position is clear. Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis shows how it is only by addressing inequality that we can secure the health of our economies in the future.--Publisher
ER  -