The Global City: Enabling Economic Intermediation and Bearing its Costs
Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global City function. … Continue reading
Inequality of Wealth. Inequality of Health
The biological effects of inequality are not limited to increasing mortality. There is also an effect on the average population height. Two hundred years ago the Americans were the tallest … Continue reading
Gasoline, Guns, and Giveaways: Is There New Capacity for Redistribution to End Three Quarters of Global Poverty?
This paper argues that approximately three-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated—in principle—via redistribution of nationally available resources in terms of cash … Continue reading
The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate
Typically, inequality is defined by a combination of economic measures referring to income and wealth. Entire populations, in the language of statistics, are measured and managed according to their place … Continue reading
Leaving no one behind: the impact of pro-poor growth
Across the world the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the current focus on relative inequality fails to address the issue. Over the past 30 years, … Continue reading
Economics vs. the Economy
Economic theories, though social constructions, can reflect reality to varying degrees. In the face of dire environmental challenges, adopting a realistic theory is key to the survival of global civilization. … Continue reading
Do Human Rights Increase Inequality?
The tragedy of human rights is that they have occupied the global imagination but have so far contributed little of note, merely nipping at the heels of the neoliberal giant … Continue reading
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