THE POLITICAL ORIGINS OF INEQUALITY: WHY A MORE EQUAL WORLD IS BETTER FOR US ALL
Book ID/图书代码： 13560015B81545
English Summary/英文概要： Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem of the rich world. Inequality between rich and poor countries, and rich and poor people the world over, is much greater than within countries like America and Britain. It is the global 1% that now owns fully half the world’s wealth—the true measure of our age of inequality. Addressing that demands that we look outside economics and beyond our national borders.
In The Political Origins of Inequality, Simon Reid-Henry takes a global perspective to explain how the crisis of welfare state capitalism in the rich world is linked to the wider ongoing condition of global poverty. Rich and poor the world over, he argues, engage in a wider political economy that has been structured over time in such a way as to reproduce a range of institutionalized forms of unfairness that are progressively distorting economies and democratic politics in countries around the world. This limits the ability of the poor to do what they are always counseled to do, to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. But it also undermines the position of the rich among us, creating a world where we are told to value security over freedom and special treatment over universal opportunity.
Inequality, Reid-Henry argues, is a function of the political choices we make, and, drawing on the historical experience of different countries, he shows how it is within our power to address it. At a moment when the future of international development is being set, we need to understand more than ever both why tackling global inequality is necessary and why it is the only way to meet a great many other challenges confronting humanity today, from climate change and food insecurity to economic instability and migration. The problem is not that the world is falling apart. To the contrary, worlds we once thought were separate are colliding. It is our capacity to act in concert that is falling apart. As Reid-Henry shows, it is this that needs restoring most of all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 不平等是这个时代的一个代表性问题，但并不只是富裕国家的问题。富国和穷国之间的不平等、全球富人和穷人之间的不平等远比美国、英国一些国家国内的不平等状况严重得多。全球百分之一的人正掌控着世界一半的财富，真实反映了这个时代的不平等性。我们急需看看国外的经济形势。
在《不平等的政治起源》中，西蒙•瑞德•亨利以全球视角阐述了富国中的福利国家资本主义危机是如何和更为广泛的全球贫困状况相关联的。他认为全球的富人和穷人都参与进了一个范围极广的政治经济体制中，这个体制不断地产生一系列制度化形式的不公平，并且逐渐破坏了世界各国的经济和民主政治。这些限制了穷人去做那些专家建议他们做的事情，更别提白手起家了，这种体制也逐渐破坏了我们身边富人的地位。现在这个世界上，我们被告知要珍惜自由之上的安全以及普遍机会中的特殊待遇。
瑞德•亨利认为不平等使我们做出的一个政治选择，他根据不同国家的历史经验，指出我们该如何用自己的力量解决它。现在这个时刻，未来的国际发展格局正在慢慢形成，我们必须比任何一个时刻都要清楚为什么处理国际不平等问题刻不容缓以及为什么解决这个问题能让我们成功应对其他的挑战，例如气候变化、食品安全、经济不稳定和移民问题。问题并不在于世界正在瓦解，而在于我们曾认为分离的世界正在产生冲撞。而改善这一情况则需要我们所有人的力量。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“《不平等的政治起源》大胆指出了现今对于全球发展的普遍观点都是错误的，因为目前的经济学家对于该领域的认识都是短浅的。所以这本书就显得相当重要，他阐述了对重大事件的解决方案，它当改变人们对于为何我们的差距这么大以及我们该做些什么的想法。”
“The Political Origins of Inequality makes the bold claim that popular thinking on global development is profoundly and fundamentally flawed because many of the economists who have written many of the best sellers have often been shortsighted. This is an important book about big issues, dismissive of facile solutions, it should change the terms of the debate on why the gaps between us are so wide and what we could do about them.”
The book of the week by TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-the-political-origins-of-inequality-simon-reid-henry-university-of-chicago-press
About the Author/作者介绍： 西蒙•瑞德•亨利是伦敦玛丽皇后大学地理系的副教授和奥斯陆和平研究所的一位资深研究员。他是《治愈古巴：全球科学的理性和维护》的作者，此书由芝加哥大学出版社出版。
Simon Reid-Henry is associate professor in the Department of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is the author of The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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