TY - BOOK AU - Dowd,Douglas Fitzgerald ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Inequality and the global economic crisis AV - HB3722 .D69 2009 U1 - 339.2 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Pluto Press, Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Financial crises KW - Income distribution KW - Equality KW - Economic aspects KW - Globalization KW - Capitalism KW - Poverty KW - Big business KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3386201 ER -