type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>For two of the richest English-speaking countries, Britain and the United States, growing income inequality has been a persistent feature of the past thirty years, leading some economists to question the cosy assumption that as economic development proceeds,...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article examines distributional disparities within nations. There are six main conclusions. First, about 80 per cent of the world's population now lives in regions whose median country has a Gini close to 40. Second, as outliers are now only located among...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Globalization has been accompanied by worsening inequality within core countries of global accumulation processes, as exemplified by China and the USA, where income and wealth inequalities have regained the stratospheric heights of the 1920s. In parallel, there...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Ernest Ludwig Feder was among the most prolific, creative and boldest of rural economists in the decades after the Second World War. Yet much of the work for which he would become most well known — on land reform, dependency and peasant agriculture,...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article argues that the driving force behind the structured credit products that triggered the financial crisis was a global excess demand for securities, and that key to the build-up of this demand was the huge accumulation of private wealth. The argument...</p>