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Volume 5: The Political Economy of Inequality

Edited by: Ackerman, Frank; Goodwin, Neva R.; Dougherty, Laurie; Gallagher, Kevin

Series Editor: Neva R. Goodwin

Published by: Island Press, Washington, DC 2000

ISBN: 1-55963-798-6

  Authors of Original Articles
  Foreword for Volume 5
  Acknowledgments
  Volume Introduction

PART I
Unequal Earnings: Theory versus Reality

  Overview Essay
  Bringing Income Distribution in from the Cold
  Wage Polarization in the U.S. and the “Flexibility” Debate
  Wielding the Stick
  Rising Wage Inequality: The United States versus Other Advanced Countries
  Inequality, Unemployment, Inflation, and Growth
  Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993

PART II
The Distribution of Wealth and Power

  Overview Essay
  International Comparisons of Wealth Inequality
  Long-Term Trends in American Wealth Inequality
  A Story of Two Nations: Race and Wealth
  The Corporate Community and the Upper Class
  Structures of Corporate Control

PART III
New Paths to the Top: CEO and Celebrity Compensation

  Overview Essay
  How Winner-Take-All Markets Arise
  The Cost of Talent: Summing Up
  Management Compensation Plans: Panacea or Placebo?
  Top Executive Pay: Tournament or Teamwork?
  Why Do Pro Athletes Make So Much Money?
  Marginal Revenue and Labor Strife in Major League Baseball

PART IV
Corporate Power: Why Does It Matter?

  Overview Essay
  Economy: The Political Foundations of Production and Exchange
  Business Unity, Business Power
  Bigness and Social Efficiency: A Case Study of the U.S. Auto Industry
  The Dark Side of Flexible Production
  Power, Accumulation, and Crisis: The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation
  The Mobilization of Corporate Conservatism
  Markets and Politics
  The Solution: A Better Scorecard and What the Scorecard Should Contain

PART V
Poverty, Inequality, and Power

  Overview Essay
  Income, Deprivation, and Poverty
  Implications for Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty
  The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century
  Social Exclusion: Towards an Analytical and Operational Framework
  Poor Relief and the Dramaturgy of Work
  Not Markets Alone: Enriching the Discussion of Income Distribution

PART VI
Intrahousehold Dynamics and Changing Household Composition

  Overview Essay
  Trade, Merger, and Employment: Economic Theory on Marriage
  Gender Coalitions: Extrafamily Influences in Intrafamily Inequality
  Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women’s Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City
  Incomes, Expenditures, and Health Outcomes: Evidence on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
  The Marginalization of Black Men: Impact on Family Structure
  Single Mothers in Sweden: Why is Poverty Less Severe?

PART VII
Technology, Skills, and Education

  Overview Essay
  Institutional Failure and the American Worker: The Collapse of Low-Skilled Wages
  Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries
  The “Skill-oriented” Strategies of German Trade Unions: Their Impact on Efficiency and Equality Objectives
  The Economics of Justice in Education
  Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989

PART VIII
Categorical Inequality

  Overview Essay
  Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates
  Intergroup Disparity: Economic Theory and Social Science Evidence
  What’s Fairness Got to Do With It? Environmental Justice and the Siting of Locally Undesirable Land Uses
  Tracking Racial Bias
  The Impact of Economic Change on Minorities and Migrants in Western Europe
  The Political Economy of Gender
  Economic Progress and Gender Equality
  The Gender Pay Gap
  Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth
  Racial Antagonisms and Race-Based Social Policy
  The Future of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming the Innovative Ideal

PART IX
World Income Inequality and The Poverty of Nations

  Overview Essay
  Divergence, Big Time
  Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present
  Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison
  Income Inequality and Development: The 1970s and 1980s Compared
  The Relationship Between Wage Inequality and International Trade
  Openness and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Latin American Challenge to East Asian Conventional Wisdom
  The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries
  Income Distribution in Developing Economies: Conceptual, Data, and Policy Issues in Broad-Based Growth

PART X
World Income Inequality and The Poverty of Nations

  Overview Essay
  Is There an Explanation? Alternative Models of the Labor Market and the Minimum Wage
  Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way
  How Social Democracy Worked: Labor-Market Institutions
  The American Paradox: High Income and High Child Poverty
  Who Paid for the Canadian Welfare State during 1955-1988?
  On Targeting and Family Benefits


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