Product Description: This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature...read more

Product Description: This text attempts to specify the place and nature of economic and economizing thinking, and individualism. It aims to illuminate the relation between the economy and other forms of culture and formulates a discussion coercing the philosophy of social science.