This essay critizes enthusiastic conceptions of globalization which suppose an extensive weakening of nation states. On the one hand, the previous autonomy of nation states is overestimated, and on the other hand, the different processes summarized by the term globalization need a more...

This paper analyzes levels and trends in within-country income inequality during the second-half of the 20th century. Two broad general trends were visible: beginning in the 1950s and 1960s inequality declined substantially in most countries, and in the 1980s and 1990s it increased more variably...