Inequality and the Global Economic Crisis

by Douglas Dowd

(Pluto Press, September 2009)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1        Inequality — An Introduction

2        Class Inequality and the Inequality of Political and Social Power

3        Inequality Based on Gender, “Race,” Nationalism and Religion

4        Big Business and Inequality

5        Today’s Inequality as Worsened by Consumerism and the Media

6        Globalization: Unintended Consequences, Inc.

7        Financialization: Las Vegas, Inc.

8        Militarism and Inequality

9        Inequality’s Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers Regarding:

Poverty

Health Care

10      Inequality’s Consequences for its Victims and its Victimizers Regarding:

Education

Housing and the Homeless

Nutrition and Hunger

Opportunity

Dignity, Morale, and Family life

11      Inequality’s Interacting Consequences for the Economy, Democracy, and Social Decency

12      Comparisons of Inequality and its treatment between the USA and Western Europe

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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