Departmental Papers (SPP)
Title
Review of Glenn Firebaugh, The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
April 2008
Abstract
Glenn Firebaugh's The New Geography of Global Income Inequality has a clear thesis that it supports with a mountain of evidence. The thesis can be stated simply: global income inequality, which grew during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is now declining because of the industrialization of Asia.
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Date Posted: 30 April 2008
Comments
Reprinted from Journal of Social History, March 2008, 2 pages.