Inequality in historical perspective

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Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over the last two or three decades. There is a case today for more outspokenness about the extremes of inequality, both about the causes and how these causes are linked to extreme injustices in the past.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch
• ISBN: 9291908002

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2006/32

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; History of Economic Thought: Classical (includes Adam Smith) ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: income inequality ; classical economists ; United Nations ; Einkommensverteilung ; Klassische Theorie

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jolly, Richard
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63333
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:24 AM CEST