Author(s): David Byrne
Series: Complexity in Social Science
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Series Editors' Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbbreviations
Chapter 1 Inequality: An Issue Whose Time has Come
Why Complexity?
Governance
The Capitalocene
Global Elites are Worried About Inequality
Climate Crisis and Governing Complexity: a Preliminary Take
And Then Came Covid-19
How this Book Is Organized
A Note on My Method of Working
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Inequality
Gender and Inequality
Ethnicity and Inequality
Class and Inequality
The Middle Class
Social Exclusion Versus Inequality
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Describing Inequality
Counting Inequality
Inequality in Incomes and Wealth
Inequalities in Health and Well-Being
Interaction/Intersectional: a Complex Realist Take on Individual and Household Data on Inequality
Spatial Inequalities: Patterns and Consequences
Qualitative Approaches to Inequality
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Income, Wealth, and Inequality
Inequality Through the Life Course – in the Past and in the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Inequality and Capitalism(s) in the Twenty-First Century
Austerity, Neo-Liberal Governance, and Financialization/Deindustrialization – the Triple Whammy for the ...
Inequality and the Social World of China
Beyond China – Brazil – Another High Middle-Income State
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6 The Role of the State in Relation to Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis – How this Works Out for ...
Taxation and Benefits
Reforming the Tax Structure to Confront Inequality and Address Climate Crisis
The Politics and Practice of Taxing Incomes
The Politics and Practice of Taxing Wealth
Taxing Real Property
Consumption Taxes
Cash Benefits
How States Act on the Labour Share of the Social Product
The Interwoven Systems Which Determine Who Gets What
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7 The Role of the State in Relation to Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis – the ‘social Wage’ and Spatial ...
Inequality and the Social Wage
Equality of Opportunity
Inequality in Health
Inequality in Education
Services are also Jobs
Inequality and Urban Planning
Notes
Bibliograpy
Chapter 8 The Formal Politics of Inequality: What Kind of Governance Systems Do We Need to Confront Inequality in a ...
Complex Government of Complexity From All Directions
The Right Mode of Governance to do What Needs Doing
How to Change Governance Towards Coping With Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9 The New Politics of Equality
Parties And/or Agents of Civil Society?
So What Is to Be Done?
And Then Came Covid-19!
Turn Too the Young
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10 The Futures That are possible for Us
And Then Came Covid-19
Programmes for Making Things More Equal While Addressing Climate Crisis
Notes
Bibliography
Index