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Anthropology of money
Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange (Studies in Anthropology & History) by GREGORY

A History of Money: From AD 800 by Professor Forrest Capie and John F Chown

Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community (Themes in the Social Sciences)

Money and the Morality of Exchange by Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch


Corporate governance, wealth distribution

Corporate Governance and the Distribution of Wealth: A Political-Economy Perspective

Authors: Perotti, Enrico C.; von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig

Source: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, Volume 162, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 204-217(14)

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Volume 162:Number 1(2006:Mar.)

Available

Lending Collection

5007.506000

Corporate governance: what about the workers?
Prem Sikka

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2008 vol 21 issue 7, pp 955 - 977

The effect of privatization on wealth distribution in Russia

Michael Alexeev

¹ Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

SME, wealth distribution

The Corporation

Corporation 20/20

Jen says

consider deeper questions about what wealth means, why we need wealth, what are the social values the system is built on and how do we change those?

Mark Gater - PhD in money systems with Britannia BS.. interesting topic and partnership model

Jak - swedish bank with no interest
Brazil - favellas - token system with boys given vouchers for mentoring younger boys that they could then spend as university fees
Zopa, Time Bank
Guildhall - 'best price' - concept, negotiate on the fair price, not on the highest or lowest it was possible to get.


david.boyle@neweconomics.org

Mark Gater
bang on www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/msc/alumni/gater.html

The Quakers' Made of Money project

Richard Douthwaite

James RIchardson

David Boyle
david.boyle@neweconomics.org - done

Sargon at nef

Responsible debt book author

REOS dialogue interviews

Report (Chatham house)


Layard, Happiness



MBA text book section on business models - look on MIT reading list

ESOP - employee shared ownership

google cooperative movement and political economy / philosophy / history / economics of


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SME, inequality

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Rik Donckels and Asko Miettinen (eds), Entrepreneurship and SME Research: On its Way to the Next Millennium

Brian Snowden and Howard R. Vane, Conversations with Leading Economists: Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics

A. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed, Growth of the International Economy1820–2000

Google
business ownership models distribution capital



Ownership and Governance of Enterprises: Recent Innovative Developments (Studies in Development Economics and Policy) (Hardcover)

In Search of Secret India” by Dr Paul Brunton



Look at Tim Jackson and SDC re growth

Oatley, International Political Economy (2008) and Ravenhill, Global Political Economy (2008) by the end of the first term.
(IPE course recommended reading)

International Perspectives on Household Wealth
By Edward N. Wolff, Jerome Levy – business equity, p 183



Why does market capitalism fail to deliver a sustainable environment and greater equality of incomes?

* Autores: Christine Greenhalgh
* Localización: Cambridge journal of economics, ISSN 0309-166X, Nº. 6, 2005 , pags. 1091-1109

I argue that free-market capitalist economies are biased against inventing/using green technology and against supplying the basic needs of the poor. With no mechanism for setting globally optimal prices for non-renewables, entrepreneurs choose labour-saving resource-intensive production methods. Further pressure on labour costs comes from finite individual lifetimes combined with rising access to goods. R&D creates technologies/products geared to saving worker and consumer time, instead of conserving non-renewable resources. Demand for positional luxury goods by the rich crowds out the basic needs of the poor. Technology caters for the demands of the rich, accentuating inequality, as prices fall/quality rises with innovation. I conclude with policies to redress imbalances. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

The Ownership Solution: Toward a Stakeholder Capitalism for the 21st Century by Jeff Gates, 1998/9

Employee Ownership in America: the Equity Solution (Issues in Organization and Management Series]) (1985)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=661444
Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality: The Impact of Self-Categorization



Co-operative, inequality
• http://hsepubl.lib.hse.fi/EN/wp/?cmd=show&wpid=1021 - more about inequality as a driver of co-operatives, rather than vice versa
• Social inequality in Vietnam and the challenges to reform – book – no explicit mention in contents page

Not focusing on inequality of national incomes. Focusing on inequality of wealth held by individuals

Layard, Happiness

Capitalism, inequality

http://www.springerlink.com/content/m54165748147g455/
- extremist persective, neo-marxist and aggressively so.

“The sanctity of private property ownership would need to be drastically interfered with in order to bring about the qualitative improvement of the living conditions and experiences of the world's peoples. It seems to me that we would have to entertain the notion that private property ownership must be abolished and a social ownership and control of the commanding heights of the economy established as a first giant step towards a humane world.”

Capitalism and inequality: The negative consequences for humanity
Journal Crime, Law and Social Change
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0925-4994 (Print) 1573-0751 (Online)
Issue Volume 6, Number 4 / October, 1982
DOI 10.1007/BF00728232
Pages 333-371
Subject Collection Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
SpringerLink Date Wednesday, December 08, 2004

So, I’ll need to strongly distinguished my approach from the socialists because that’s who I’ll get lumped in with.

Also, everyone says ‘the top 10% blah and the bottom 10% blah’ – so, briefly recognise that ineq is growing (this is contentious) and move very swiftly on to introduce my angle, which is fresh.

Perhaps the literature so far has been divided into the capitalists on one side, the socialists on the other, and there’s a middle ground regarding the distribution of wealth that has yet to be explored fully.

- ‘Fruits of capitalism; inequality matters’ – Kim Petersen. Book, again quite extreme left

The case of China – capitalism and socialism – who owns the organisations and where does the surplus go?

YouTube - Inequality and Global Capitalism
Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman explores how social inequality and globalization are threatening the foundation of democracy in the United States in ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKinQbBF1Ek

CiC, inequality

Community Interest Company, wealth distribution

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Generally speaking, "wealth" is the value of everything a person or family owns, minus any debts. However, for purposes of studying the wealth distribution, economists define wealth in terms of marketable assets, such as real estate, stocks, and bonds, leaving aside consumer durables like cars and household items because they are not as readily converted into cash and are more valuable to their owners for use purposes than they are for resale (Wolff, 2004, p. 4, for a full discussion of these issues). Once the value of all marketable assets is determined, then all debts, such as home mortgages and credit card debts, are subtracted, which yields a person's net worth. In addition, economists use the concept of financial wealth, which is defined as net worth minus net equity in owner-occupied housing. As Wolff (2004, p. 5) explains, "Financial wealth is a more 'liquid' concept than marketable wealth, since one's home is difficult to convert into cash in the short term. It thus reflects the resources that may be immediately available for consumption or various forms of investments."

We also need to distinguish wealth from income. Income is what people earn from wages, dividends, interest, and any rents or royalties that are paid to them on properties they own. In theory, those who own a great deal of wealth may or may not have high incomes, depending on the returns they receive from their wealth, but in reality those at the very top of the wealth distribution usually have the most income.

Business model, inequality

Business ownership, inequality

• Steckel, R.H., Moehling, C.M. (2001), "Rising inequality: trends in the distribution of wealth in industrializing New England", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 61 No.1, pp.160-83.

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBooklist.php?BookListID=123 - long list of anti-capitalist books



SME, inequality

He said SMEs play a vital role in the country's socio-economic development, and aid in the eradication of poverty and inequality, an SME role that the government has realised.
http://www.economist.com.na/content/view/317/53/


http://www.oecd.org/document/38/0,3343,en_2649_34321_37130854_1_1_1_1,00.html

Economic Survey of Japan 2006: Income inequality, poverty and social spending

OECD Economics Department

Monetary flows

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/utis/1999/00000015/00000001/art00005

The World System of International Monetary Flows: A Network Analysis

Authors: Salisbury J. G. T.; Barnett G. A.

Source: The Information Society, Volume 15, Number 1, 1 January 1999 , pp. 31-49(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The emergence of the global service economy has altered the flows of information and capital among the world's nations. Electronic international banking networks now provide the economic infrastructure for the ''global village'' as millions of financial transactions are processed daily. This article describes the world system based on the financial transactions of an international credit card network. Using transaction data from the third quarter of 1995, a network analysis produced structural findings similar to those found for the international telecommunications and trade networks. These results indicate that the world's monetary flow system is composed of a single group with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Canada at the core and the former members of the Eastern Block and less developed countries at the periphery. Additionally, a number of nations are marginal in the network with only a single link to a core member of the network.




Inequality, business

Business, wealth distribution

Business, surplus distribution

Surplus distribution, inequality

Profit, inequality

Shareholders, inquality

Stock market, inequality

Business ownership, inequality

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/75-001-XIE/10904/art-2.htm - Canadian dept of statistics
Of total wealth inequality in Canada, 98% was attributable to inequality within provinces. The factors affecting family wealth inequality within provinces include homeownership status, business equity, financial asset components, employer pension plan savings, and mortgage and consumer debt.

Business equity, inequality

International Perspectives on household wealth… Edward Wolff

nstitutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps (New Frontiers of Social Policy)
by Michael Walton (Editor), Anthony J. Bebbington (Editor), Anis A. Dani (Editor), Arjan De Haan (Editor)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inequality-Prosperity-Liberal-Political-Hardcover/dp/0801443512/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221652641&sr=8-1
Inequality and Prosperity: social Europe vs liberal America

Journal of Corporate Citizenship

Google – ‘stock market, inequality’ – most references focus on income inequality
Wealth in America
By Lisa A. Keister

Looks a little at wealth.

Google search – journal of coproate citizenship, inequality

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1445
can do a manual search through the back issues

JCC March 2007
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1445/is_200703?tag=content;col1

nothing on inequality from the titles

Ethical Corp – search on ‘inequality’ produces 45 results
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5337
Governance:
Shareholder voting rights – Equity ownership’s endemic inequality
European investors want corporate decisions made on the basis of one share, one vote, but some companies are not listening
Despite protests from investors, more than one in four companies in Europe restrict the voting rights of shareholders.

Google

‘CSR, inequality’

World of Work Report 2008: Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization, produced by the ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies also notes that a major share of the cost of the financial and economic crisis will be borne by hundreds of millions of people who haven’t shared in the benefits of recent growth.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/philanthrocapitalism/power_inequality_democracy
The new philanthropy: power, inequality, democracy
Geoff Mulgan
The sceptical scrutiny of "philanthrocapitalism" by Michael Edwards is welcome. But markets and social enterprise could help realise the potential of a new donor economy, says Geoff Mulgan.

(how demorlaising – being a charity recipient. Is it? At the nag was it good to receive charity donations?)

Consumer driven market mechanisms to fight inequality: the case of CSR/product differentiation models with asymmetric information

The bottom up pressure of "concerned" consumers and the rise of "socially responsible" products represents a new market mechanism to fight inequality and promote social inclusion. To analyze the new phenomenon of competition in corporate social responsibility (CSR) amid doubts on consumer tastes and of the effective corporate SR stance we adopt a horizontal differentiation approach in which the Hotelling segment is reinterpreted as the space of product SR characteristics and consumer tastes are uncertain. We find equilibria of the pure location and of the price-location games and show what changes when we move from a duopoly of profit maximizing producers to a mixed duopoly. Our findings illustrate that a nonzero degree of CSR is the optimal choice of profit maximizing corporations under reasonable parametric intervals of consumers’ "costs of ethical distance", corporate cost of CSR and uncertainty about consumer tastes.

http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/1930.html
The revised and updated edition of this text (originally published in 2000) examines how excessive executive compensation contributes to the widening gulf between rich and poor.


Premodern Trade in World History (Themes in World History) (Themes in World History) by Richard L. Smith (Paperback - 15 Dec 2007)

A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present by Rondo Cameron and Larry Neal (Paperback - 25 Jul 2002)