Inequality and Globalization by Archawa Paweenawat HARDBACK 9780691211022

Inequality and GlobalizationImproving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts\nAuthor(s): Archawa Paweenawat, Robert M. Townsend\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691211022, 978-0691211022\nSynopsis\nA remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each other\n\nIncreasing inequality, the impact of globalization, and the disparate effects of financial regulation and innovation are extraordinarily important topics that fuel spirited policy debates. And yet the facts underlying these debates are of doubtful accuracy. In reality, as Archawa Paweenawat and Robert Townsend show in Inequality and Globalization, there is a large gap between micro household surveys, which measure key outcomes such as inequality, and aggregated financial accounts, which measure macroeconomic totals and growth. Paweenawat and Townsend propose a r.