Did British Capitalism Breed Inequality?
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-37869-7
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3rd November 2005
- Pages: 288
Table of Contents
1. The issues Part I 2. Real wages and standard of living 3. Earnings inequality, skill scarcity and the structure of pay 4. Income inequality Part II 5. What drives inequality? 6. Disequilibrating factor demand: The industrialization bias 7. Equilibrating supply: men, machines and skills Part III 8. Modeling inequality in a resource-scarce open economy 9. Fact or fiction? 10. Accounting for the Kuznets Curve, 1821-1911 11. Why was British growth so slow before the 1820s? 12. Inequality, industrialization and the standard of living during wartime: conjectures 13. Data, theory and debate Appendices