{"product_id":"unequal-europe-regional-integration-and-the-rise-of-european-inequality-9780190494254","title":"Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jason Beckfield\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Euro-crisis of 2009-2012 vividly demonstrated that European Union policies matter for the distribution of resources within and between European nation-states. Throughout the crisis, distributive conflicts between the EU's winners and losers worsened, and are still reverberating in European politics today. In \u003cem\u003eUnequal Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, Jason Beckfield demonstrates that there is a direct connection between European integration and the increase in European income inequality over the past four decades. He places the recent crisis into a broader sociological, political, and economic perspective by analyzing how European integration has reshaped the distribution of income across the households of Europe. Using individual-and household-level income survey data, combined with macro-level data on social policies, and case studies of welfare reforms in EU and non-EU states, Beckfield shows how European integration has re-stratified Europe by simultaneously drawing national economies closer\u003cbr\u003etogether and increasing inequality among households. Explaining how, where, and why income inequality has changed in the EU, \u003cem\u003eUnequal Europe\u003c\/em\u003e answers the question: who wins and who loses from European integration?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889371496599,"sku":"9780190494254","price":10158.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190494254.webp?v=1781176115","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unequal-europe-regional-integration-and-the-rise-of-european-inequality-9780190494254","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}