Killing Fields of Inequality

Name: Killing Fields of Inequality
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ISBN: 9780745662596

ISBN-10: 0745662595

ISBN-13: 9780745662596

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gï¿½ran Therborn, Gï¿½ran Therborn

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Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio–cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Gouml;ran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Co-Director Emeritus of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala.