Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty : : The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19 / / Francesco Schettino and Fabio Clementi.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 227
• VerfasserIn: Schettino, Francesco,; Clementi, Fabio,
• TeilnehmendeR: Clementi, Fabio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 227.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)

In Crisis, inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the capitalist crisis of the last two decades with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality.

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Figures and Tables
• Chapter 1 The Nature of the Crisis
• 1 Underconsumption, Prices and Profits
• 2 Excess Commodities, Excess Needs
• 3 Pressure to Purchase, Debt and Speculation
• 4 Financial Speculation and the Ratings Agencies
• 5 Currency Conflict
• Chapter 2 Dollar vs. Euro: From the 2010 Attack to the 2015 Surrender
• 1 An Evening in Manhattan
• 2 The Spectre of Speculation
• 3 The Final Surrender: The Greek Clinamen
• 4 ttip, tpp and Global Conflict
• Chapter 3 A Flood of Liquidity: From qe towards a New Despotic Management of Capitalism
• 1 'Hostile Brothers' and Fictitious Capital
• 2 Quantitative Easing (qe)
• 3 The Effects of Quantitative Easing
• 4 Capitalism's Addiction Problem
• 5 When It Rains, It Pours
• 6 Capital's New Despotism
• Chapter 4 Income Distribution: Concepts, Analytical Tools and Empirical Evidence
• 1 Income Distribution
• 1.1 Basic Concepts
• 1.2 Representing Income Distribution
• 1.3 Global Income Distribution
• 1.4 Income Distribution in Italy
• 2 Economic Inequality
• 2.1 Measuring Inequality
• 2.2 Relative vs. Absolute Inequality
• 2.3 Inequality in the World
• 2.4 Income Inequality in Italy
• 2.5 The Causes of Inequality
• 3 Poverty: Definition and Measurement
• 3.1 Defining Poverty
• 3.2 Uni- and Multidimensional Poverty
• 3.3 Relative and Absolute Poverty
• 3.4 Poverty Lines
• 3.5 Measuring Poverty
• 3.6 Poverty in the World
• 3.7 Poverty in Italy
• 4 Income Polarisation
• 4.1 Definition
• 4.2 Inequality and Income Polarisation
• 4.3 Measuring Income Polarisation
• 4.4 Income Polarisation in Practice
• Chapter 5 The Effects of the Crisis on Poverty and Inequality
• 1 More People in Poverty?
• 2 A Less Equal World?.
• Chapter 6 Pandemic, Crisis, Inequality and Conflict
• 1 The Crisis Scenario Pre Covid 19
• 2 Epidemic, Misery, Inequality and Conflict
• Chapter 7 Afterword: Socialism or Barbarism: Where Do We Go from Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty?
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 On Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty within a Global Ecological Imperialist Political Economy with Real Competition
• 1.2 Real Competition, Uneven Development, Crisis and North-South Divide in the Age of Pandemics
• 1.3 From Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty within a Global Ecological Imperialist Political Economy with Real Competition to the Contrastive Case of China and Global Futures: Socialism or Barbarism
• 2 Time Horizon for Optimal Planning
• 3 The Immediate Crisis: December 2019 to February 2020
• 3.1 Economic Impacts and Countervailing Policies from March 2020 to March 2021
• 3.2 Going Beyond: The 14th Five-Year Plan
• 3.3 Methodology for Modelling and Counterfactual Experiments and Scenarios
• 3.4 Matrix Algebra of Multiplier Analysis
• 3.5 Some Illustrative Results and Interpretation
• 4 Modelling of Employment Effects after Fiscal Stimulus
• 5 Summary and Policy Recommendations in an Imperfect Crisis-Infested World of 2020s
• 6 wcs and Chinese Ambiguities
• 7 Conclusions: Possible Global Futures-Socialism or Barbarism?
• References
• Index.