Age of Inequality; Machin, Stephen (Professor of Economics, University College, London, and Executive Director, Industrial Relations Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics); Hardback; Book

Machin, Stephen (Professor of Economics, University College, London, and Executive Director, Industrial Relations Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics)
Reissue; Hardback; Book; Graphs, Tables
256 pages
Published: April 1998
TEXERE Publishing
ISBN: 0752811703
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Why the gap between the rich and the poor is widening in the age of knowledge, technology and globalisation.A discussion of both the populist and expert views on why rising inequality has emerged in Britain, and what the social and economic implications are. It argues that in the age of rapidly-changing technology and global competition, a few will get richer, while the rest get poorer.