- Preface
- Introduction: What Is the Challenge of Inequality?
- I. Inequality in Time and Space
- 1. Turning the Telescope: The Economic Analysis of Income Distribution
- 2. Society as a Sports Field: The Challenge of Bourdieu
- 3. Renewing Marx: Capital Accumulation and the Weight of History
- II. Inequality, Empire, and the Decline of Nations
- 4. The Ranking of Nations
- 5. The Return of Empire: Inequality on a Global Scale
- 6. Insiders and Outsiders: Race, Gender, and Class in Long-Term Perspective
- 7. Visceral Inequality in the Twenty-First Century
- 8. Cities, Elites, and Accumulation
- 9. The Force of Information and Technology
- III. The Politics of Inequality in the Twenty-First Century
- 10. Reinstating the Time of Politics
- 11. What Is to Be Done?
- Glossary
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Return of Inequality
Social Change and the Weight of the Past
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ISBN 9780674988071
Publication Date: 05/18/2021