The New Geography of Global Income Inequality or Research Methods in Accounting

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Author: Glenn Firebaugh

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century.

This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era-a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.

Table of Contents:

Preface

PART I. THE NEW GEOGRAPHY HYPOTHESIS

1. Massive Global Income Inequality: When Did It Arise and Why Does It Matter?


The Growing World Income Pie


Other Welfare Changes


The Rise in Income Disparities over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Why Nations?


Why Not Focus on Poverty Rather than on Inequality?





2. The Reversal of Historical Inequality Trends


Myths of the Trade Protest Model


Causes of the Reversal: An Overview


The Inequality Transition

PART II. MEASUREMENT

3. How Is National Income Measured, and Can We Trust the Data?


How Is National Income Measured?


Are Income Estimates Plausible?


Are the Historical Income Data Reliable Enough?


Are the Contemporary Income Data Reliable Enough?


Measuring Income over Time


Appendix A3: Adjusting for Household Economies in Poor

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Research Methods in Accounting

Author: Malcolm Smith

'Malcolm Smith's Research Methods in Accounting provides a useful addition to the limited number of books on research methods that are addressed specifically to the area of accounting. For students taking DBA degrees in the area, it is probably an ideal companion' - The European Accounting Review

Research in accounting is concerned with solving problems, investigating relationships and building a body of knowledge. With this in mind, this book will provide a clear and concise overview of the conduct of applied research studies in accounting.

It provides the principal building blocks of how to implement research in accounting and related fields.

This book provides students with:

- an understanding of contemporary research ideas in accounting, so that readers can identify and define research problems and prepare strategies for their solution;

- an awareness of alternative research methods, to facilitate the selection of the most appropriate method for addressing particular research questions;

- an ability to review existing research and to offer critiques of articles published in refereed journals;

- an appreciation of the ethical constraints on the conduct of accounting research.

This book will be essential for students and academics in the fields of accounting and management.