Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World
by Sebastiano Fadda (Editor), Pasquale Tridico (Editor)

About the author
Sebastiano Fadda is Professor at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, and teaches Advanced Labour Economics at the Department of Economics. He is director of ASTRIL (Interdisciplinary Association for the Study and Research of Labour) and has worked extensively on institutions, economic development and labour economics issues.
Pasquale Tridico is Professor at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, and is a lecturer in Labour Economics and Economic Policy. He is director of a two-year master’s degree course (Labour Market, Industrial Relations and Welfare Systems). He is also Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Growth and Welfare Systems and elected General Secretary of the EAEPE. He is the author of Inequality in Financial Capitalism (Routledge, 2017).

About this book
In the years following the financial crash, two issues have become central to the debate in economics: inequality and the uneven nature of sustainable development. These two issues are at the core of this book which aims to explain three key questions: why inequality has increased so much in the last three decades; why most advanced economies are stagnating or are experiencing moderate economic growth; and why, even where economic growth is occurring, the quality of that growth is questioned.
Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World is divided into three parts. The first part concerns the theoretical aspects of inequality, and ethical issues regarding economics and equality. The second part explores empirical evidence and policy suggestions drawing on the uneven levels of development and unprecedented levels of inequality experienced among advanced economies in the context of global financial capitalism. The third part focuses on sustainable development issues such as full employment, social costs of global trade liberalization, environmental sustainability and ecological issues. Along with inequality these issues are central for capitalism and for economic development.
This volume is of interest to those who study political economy, sustainable development and social inequality.

About the series
Over the past two decades, the intellectual agendas of heterodox experts in the science of economics have taken a decidedly pluralist turn. Leading thinkers have begun to move beyond the established paradigms of Austrian, feminist, Institutional-evolutionary, Marxian, Post Keynesian, radical, social, and Sraffian economics—opening up new lines of analysis, criticism, and dialogue among dissenting schools of thought. This cross-fertilization of ideas is creating a new generation of scholarship in which novel combinations of heterodox ideas are being brought to bear on important contemporary and historical problems.
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics aims to promote this new scholarship by publishing innovative books in heterodox economic theory, policy, philosophy, intellectual history, institutional history, and pedagogy. Syntheses or critical engagement of two or more heterodox traditions are especially encouraged.
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/series/RAHE

Table of contents
    Introduction
Part I Ethics, Pluralism and Theoretical Approaches
    Chapter 1 The rise of income inequality in rich countries
    Chapter 2 Income inequality, household debt and growth
    Chapter 3 Unsustainable Unemployment and Sustainable Growth. A Long Run Perspective
    Chapter 4 Shifting The Social Costs of Trade: Non-Tariff Measures As The New Focus Of Trade Policy
    Chapter 5 Inequity and Unsustainability: The Role of Financialized Masculinity
Part II Empirical Evidences of Inequality
    Chapter 6 Intergenerational inequality: transmission channels, direct and indirect mechanisms and evidence for European countries
    Chapter 7 Financialised Capitalism and Inequality: shareholder value-driven firms, marketised household balance sheets and bubbly financial markets
    Chapter 8 Regional inequalities and foreign direct investments. The case of Hungary
    Chapter 9 Financialization and Inequalities: The Uneven Development of the Housing Market On The Eastern Periphery of Europe
Part III Sustainable Development Issues
    Chapter 10 The Triple Crisis: How can Europe foster growth, well-being, and sustainability?
    Chapter 11 The challenge of hydropower as a sustainable development alternative Benefits and controversial effects in the case of the Brazilian Amazon
    Chapter 12 Careful with that switch! Willingness to save energy and income distribution
    Chapter 13 PES - a Payment for Ecosystem Services or a Price for our (un)Efficiency System?

Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics (Book 35)
Length: 274 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 22, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1138229563
ISBN-13: 978-1138229563