The global and national inequality faultlines: the economic dimensions of (in)security

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Publication date (Print): 1 May 2021

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Peter Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at Keele University. He holds a BA and MA from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Leeds. He has taught and researched in several African countries and published variously on rural and industrial development, macroeconomic policy and development strategy. p.r.lawrence@ 123456keele.ac.uk

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[1] Atkinson, Anthony. B. 1975. Economics of Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[2] Atkinson, Anthony. B. 2015. Inequality – What Can Be Done? Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

[3] Buchheit, Paul. 2017. Now five men own almost as much wealth as half of the world's population. AlterNet, June 12. Accessed September 23, 2020 at https://www.alternet.org/2017/06/five-richest-men-inequality/.

[4] Collier, Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 1998. On the economic causes of civil war. Oxford Economic Papers, 50, 4: 563–573.

[5] Collier Paul and Anke Hoeffler. 2004. Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford Economic Papers, 56, 4: 563–595.

[6] Cramer, Christopher. 2002. Homo economicus goes to war: Methodological individualism, rational choice, and the political economy of war. World Development, 30, 11: 1845–1864.

[7] Cramer, Christopher. 2003. Does inequality cause conflict? Journal of International Development, 15: 397–412.

[8] Credit Suisse. 2019. Global Wealth Report 2019. Zurich: Credit Suisse Research Institute. Accessed September 2, 2020 at https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealth-report.html.

[9] Ezcurra, Roberto and David Palacios. 2016. Terrorism and spatial disparities: Does interregional inequality matter? European Journal of Political Economy, 42: 60–74.

[10] Harcourt, Geoffrey. 2015. Thomas Piketty, capital in the twenty-first century. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 26, 2: 314–321.

[11] Jongmook, Choe. 2008. Income inequality and crime in the United States. Economics Letters, 101: 31–33.

[12] Morgan, Kelly. 2000. Inequality and crime. Review of Economics and Statistics, 82 (4): 530–539.

[13] Korotayev, Andrey, Ilya Vaskin and Sergey Tsirel. 2019. Economic growth, education, and terrorism: A re-analysis. Terrorism and Political Violence. doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2018.15 59835.

[14] Kose, M. Ayhan, Franziska Ohnsorge, Peter Nagle and Naotaka Sugawara. 2020. Caught by a cresting debt wave. Finance & Development, 57, 2, 40–43.

[15] Krieger, Tim and Daniel Meierrieks. 2018. Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism. World Development, 116: 125–136.

[16] Kuznets, Simon. 1955. Economic growth and income inequality. American Economic Review, 45, 1: 1–28.

[17] Lawrence, Peter. 2018. Corporate power, the state, and the postcapitalist future. African Study Monographs, Suppl. 57: 45–63.

[18] Macculloch, Robert. 2005. Income inequality and the taste for revolution. Journal of Law and Economics, 48, 1: 93–123.

[19] Metz, Neil and Mariya Burdina. 2018. Neighbourhood income inequality and property crime. Urban Studies, 55 (1): 133–150.

[20] Neate, Rupert and Jasper Jolly. 2020. Hedge funds ‘raking in billions’ during coronavirus crisis. The Guardian. 9th April. Accessed April 9, 2020 at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/09/hedge-funds-raking-in-billions-during-coronavirus-crisis

[21] Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the 21st Century. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

[22] Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

[23] Stewart, Frances. 2004. Development and Security. Conflict, Development and Security, 4, 3: 261–288.

[24] Tribe, Keith. 2015. Wealth and inequality: Thomas Piketty's capital in the twenty-first century. Past and Present, 227, 1: 249–263.

[25] Vitali, Stefania, James B. Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston. 2011. The network of global corporate control. Plos One. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025995.

[26] Wade, Robert Hunter. 2014. The Piketty phenomenon: why has capital become a publishing sensation? International Affairs, 90, 5: 1069–1083.

[27] Wilkinson, Richard and Kate Pickett. 2010. The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone. London: Penguin Books.

[28] World Bank. World Development Indicators Online. Washington: World Bank. https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators