Designing Global Economic Equality
The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Politics at the United Nations: An Intellectual History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 May 2026
- ISBN 9780197811467
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 235x157x21 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Designing Global Economic Equality is an intellectual history of global inequality: a story of the rise and fall of ideas for global egalitarian politics, or global equality by design.
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Designing Global Economic Equality is an intellectual history of global inequality: a story of the rise and fall of ideas for global egalitarian politics, or global equality by design. Tracing the writings of United Nations thinkers and their intellectual environments, it contributes to historiographies on inequality, the UN, development, international relations theory, business in society, and neoliberalism. Drawing on sources from development economics, political science, and international relations to UN reports, newspaper articles, management literature, and interviews with contemporary UN experts, it investigates how vocabularies of global inequality shifted over time.
The book finds that from the 1940s onward, global economic inequality remained a persistent theme. Global egalitarians not only championed equality norms but also concrete instruments-especially development, redistribution, and restructuring-while remaining critical of both global economic hierarchies and the belief that markets alone would ensure equality. The 1970s marked the high point of efforts to design a global equality regime, only to see these hopes dismantled in the early 1980s with the rise of neoliberal globalization.
By the late 1990s, the failure of these policies paved the way for “inclusive capitalism,” a depoliticized approach to inequality. Yet global egalitarian ideas endured, and the UN continued to produce inequality statistics, set global norms, and foster international dialogue. In the wake of the 2007-2008 crises, as inequality debates re-emerged with force, familiar themes and warnings resurfaced. Offering a history of widening gaps and efforts to close them, this book tells a story from which we may still learn.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Global Equality by Design
Part 1. The Rise of Development, Redistribution, and Reconstruction
Development in an Unequal World
The Widening Gap
Inequality Takes Center Stage: From UNESCO to the World Bank
Part 2. The Fall of Development, Redistribution, and Reconstruction
From Redistribution and Reconstruction to Self-Help
Shaky Alliances: When Inclusive Capitalism Entered the United Nations
Conclusion: Alarm Bells That Had Sounded for Decades
