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The Inequality Puzzle
eBook - European and US Leaders Discuss Rising Income Inequality
Berger, Roland/Grusky, David/Raffel, Tobias et al
ISBN/EAN: 9783642158049
Umbreit-Nr.: 1705713
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 227 S., 4.21 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.10.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
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Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- Is there too much inequality? We are witnessing for the first time in many decades a vigorous public debate in the United States and many European countries as to whether income inequality is approaching unjustifiable levels. The financial crisis has drawn special attention to remuneration at financial firms, as well as other more broadly based increases in inequality, and the pendulum may well have swung back toward attitudes favoring strengthened regulations. It is against this background of shifting public and political views about income inequality that the Roland Berger Foundation decided to solicit the opinions of U. S. and European political, business, and labor leaders by partnering with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. This initiative, led by a diverse team of five authors, sought to cast light on how prominent European and U. S. leaders are making sense of rising inequality. The objective was not to provide yet another scholarly tome on inequality,or another analysis of how the general public views inequality. We are already awash in such analyses. What we dont know, and what we have sought to offer, is a window into how senior leaders view this historic moment. In the summer of 2009, we interviewed thirteen political, business, and labor leaders and presented these interviews in their original form.
- Kurztext
- This exploration of the causes of and solutions to rising income inequality in the US and Europe presents interviews with top business executives, politicians and labor leaders from trades unionist John Monks to former World Bank president James Wolfensohn.