This article shows that the increase of income inequality and global wealth concentration
was an important driver for the financial and Eurozone crisis. The high levels of income …

This paper summarizes the findings of two recent reports by Onaran and Obst (2015) and
Stockhammer and Wildauer (2015), and derives the policy implications. Results of research …

This paper examines the respective impacts of public and private governance institutions on
foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment inflows. We present two hypotheses:(1) there …

Several Nobel laureates economists have called for redistributive policies. This paper shows
that there is a strong case for redistributive policies because the global increase of income …

Since the 1980s there has been a clear reversal of the trends towards relatively egalitarian
income distribution achieved during the post-war era, with a global race to the bottom in the …

Abstract The West portrays Thailand's recent military coup negatively, but the Thai middle
class generally regard it as an attempt to save Thailand from becoming a failed state. Middle …