Wealth Inequality and Stratification in the World Capitalist Economy

Jenny CHESTERS

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    Abstract

    Social inequality is generally conceptualized in terms of economic disadvantage related to income, however this approach ignores another equally important dimension of social inequality: wealth inequality. Drawing on world systems theory and a Marxist perspective on social class, in this article I examine the interrelationship between stratification in the world economy and stratification within national economies with a view to developing a global class schema. This examination of trends in the net worth and the location of the wealthiest individuals in the world indicate that the rapid expansion of the world economy in the past three decades has afffected the global distribution of wealth with an increasing proportion of the transnational capitalist class residing in semi-peripheral nations
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)248-267
    Number of pages20
    JournalPerspectives on Global Development and Technology
    Volume12
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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