Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World

Sebastiano Fadda is Professor at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, and teaches Advanced Labour Economics at the Department of Economics. He is director of ASTRIL (Interdisciplinary Association for the Study and Research of Labour) and has worked extensively on institutions, economic development and labour economics issues. Pasquale Tridico is Professor at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, and is a lecturer in Labour Economics and Economic Policy. He is director of a two-year master’s degree course (Labour Market, Industrial Relations and Welfare Systems). He is also Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Growth and Welfare Systems and elected General Secretary of the EAEPE. He is the author of Inequality in Financial Capitalism (Routledge, 2017).

• Introduction Pasquale Tridico and Sebastiano FaddaPart I Ethics, pluralism and theoretical approaches Chapter 1 The rise of income inequality in rich countriesPasquale TridicoChapter 2 Income inequality, household debt and growthRiccardo Pariboni Chapter 3 Unsustainable unemployment and sustainable growth: a long-run perspectiveSebastiano FaddaChapter 4 Shifting the social costs of trade: non-tariff measures as the new focus of trade policyWerner RazaChapter 5 Inequity and unsustainability: the role of financialized masculinity Julie A. NelsonPart II Empirical evidences of inequalityChapter 6 Intergenerational inequality: transmission channels, direct and indirect mechanisms and evidence for European countriesMichele RaitanoChapter 7 Financialised capitalism and inequality: shareholder-value-driven firms, marketised household balance sheets and bubbly financial marketsNicholas Black and Ismail ErtürkChapter 8 Regional inequalities and foreign direct investments: the case of HungaryMiklós SzanyiChapter 9 Financialization and inequalities: the uneven development of the housing market on the eastern periphery of EuropeZsuzsanna Pósfai, Zoltán Gál and Erika Nagy Part III Sustainable development issuesChapter 10 The triple crisis: how can Europe foster growth, well-being and sustainability? Miriam Rehm, Sven Hergovich and Georg FeiglChapter 11 The challenge of hydropower as a sustainable development alternative: benefits and controversial effects in the case of the Brazilian AmazonNicola Caravaggioa, Valeria Costantinia, Martina Iorioa, Salvatore Monnia and Elena PaglialungaaChapter 12 Careful with that switch! Willingness to save energy and income distributionGionata Castaldi, Alessio D’Amato and Mariangela Zoli