2. Sources on the drivers of inequality

gorge on this list
http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/poverty_and_inequality/publications.html#equality

Growth isn't working - nef
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_publicationdetail.aspx?pid=219

capital, karl marx - focuses on the flow of value from labour / 'proletariat' to owner / 'capitalist'

Kennedy, Margit: Interest and Inflation Free Money (Sava International 1995). Source of the great interest and wealth distribution graph in Future of Money.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/01/11/punitive-and-it-works/
'Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty'

'Understanding the U.S. distribution of wealth' (in docs folder)
"This article describes the current state of economic theory intended to explain the unequal distribution of wealth among U.S. households."
http://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedmqr/y1997isprp22-36nv.21no.2.html

Wallerstein, World Systems Analysis: An Introduction

ODI generally - specifically, working paper sent by D

D's suggestions:
on one of the classic theories of inequality, now a litte debunked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory

For the basics of Political Economy you could go to the original text, summairsed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%2C_Volume_I

www.id21.org is also a good source of short briefings on development issues

Monopoly and the distribution of wealth
William s comanor and Robert h smiley
JSTOR – the quarterly journal of economics, vol 94. No 1
http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533(198002)94%3A1%3C195%3AMATDOW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8&cookieSet=1

“Harberger’s original study [1954] instigated a series of inquirys into the allocative effects of monopoly, while prior to our paper there had been no investigation of distributive effects.’

‘A first step toward a detailed examination of the distributive impact of monopoly was to obtain estimates of the relative magnitudes involved. Were these effects sufficiently large to warrant further investigation?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_system
debate around income from ownership / income from labour

I'd like to build up a comprehensive picture of the way we currently understand the production and increase of inequality. What the different ideas are and who subscribes to them.

worth registering for ODI's updates as they represent the establishment academic veiw on development / political economics and they have some good entry papers on links between inequality and growth.

Forrester, J.W. (1971). World Dynamics, Productivity Press, Portland, Oregon.
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=full-set-set&set_number=022359&set_entry=000002&format=999

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