Alan Freeman is Research Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history, and development economics.

• Introduction: international income inequality 1. World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power 2. Financialization and income inequality: an empirical analysis 3. Income inequality: past, present and future in a political economy perspective 4. Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan 5. On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy

Alan Freeman is Research Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history, and development economics.

• Introduction: international income inequality 1. World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power 2. Financialization and income inequality: an empirical analysis 3. Income inequality: past, present and future in a political economy perspective 4. Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan 5. On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy

Alan Freeman is Research Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics at Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history, and development economics.

• Introduction: international income inequality 1. World inequality, Latin America catching up, and the asymmetries in power 2. Financialization and income inequality: an empirical analysis 3. Income inequality: past, present and future in a political economy perspective 4. Transformation of the class structure in contemporary Japan 5. On the labor theory of value as the basis for the analysis of economic inequality in the capitalist economy