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Article: The New Geography of Global Income Inequality.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. By Glenn Firebaugh (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xiv plus 272 pp. $60.00).
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.
Firebaugh argues that this thesis flies in the fact of conventional wisdom. He cites popular media and the reports of non-governmental organizations as examples of the conventional wisdom that between-nation income ...
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