Quality of Society, Volume III

Adolfo Figueroa holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has published several books with Palgrave: The Quality of Society (Volumes I and II), Economics of the Anthropocene Age, Rules for Scientific Research in Economics, and Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment. During his distinguished academic career, Figueroa served as Visiting Professor at American, European, and Latin American universities. As researcher, he participated in several international collaborative research projects (at the University of Oxford, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and others), as a professional economist, he worked as Consultant to several international organizations (World Bank, ILO, UNDP, FAO), doing fieldwork in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Science is epistemology and economics is too.- Chapter 3. Economics of electoral democracy.- Chapter 4. Labor market Singularities.- Chapter 5. Biological and social factors of income inequality.- Chapter 6. Fiscal policy and income inequality.- Chapter 7. Inequality and illegal international markets: The case of cocaine.- Chapter 8. Social change question in today’s capitalism.- Chapter 9. Quality of society and the Anthropocene age.- Chapter 10. Planning through markets in the Anthropocene age.- Appendix.