Figures and Tables

Figures

1.1  The economic crisis of the 1970s: inflation and unemployment in the US and Europe, 1960–1987

1.2  The wealth crash of the 1970s: share of assets held by the top 1% of the US population, 1922–1998

1.3  The restoration of class power: share in national income of the top 0.1% of the population, US, Britain, and France, 1913–1998

1.4  The concentration of wealth and earning power in the US: CEO remuneration in relation to average US salaries, 1970–2003, and wealth shares of the richest families, 1982–2002

1.5  The ‘Volcker shock’: movements in the real rate of interest, US and France, 1960–2001

1.6  The attack on labour: real wages and productivity in the US, 1960–2000

1.7  The tax revolt of the upper class: US tax rates for higher and lower brackets, 1913–2003

1.8  Extracting surpluses from abroad: rates of return on foreign and domestic investments in the US, 1960–2002

1.9  The flow of tribute into the US: profits and capital income from the rest of the world in relation to domestic profits

4.1  Global pattern of foreign direct investments, 2000

4.2  The international debt crisis of 1982–1985

4.3  Employment in the major maquila sectors in Mexico in 2000

4.4  South Korea goes abroad: foreign direct investment, 2000

5.1  The geography of China’s opening to foreign investment in the 1980s

5.2  Increasing income inequality in China: rural and urban, 1985–2000

6.1  Global growth rates, annually and by decade, 1960–2003

6.2  The hegemony of finance capital: net worth and rates of profit for financial and non-financial corporations in the US, 1960–2001

7.1  The deteriorating position of the US in global capital and ownership flows, 1960–2002: inflow and outflow of US investments and change in foreign ownership shares

Tables

5.1  Measures of capital inflows: foreign loans, foreign direct investments, and contractual alliances, 1979–2002

5.2  Changing employment structure in China, 1980–2002

Acknowledgements

Figures 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.1 are reproduced by kind permission of the Guilford Press from P. Dicken, Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century. 4th Edition, 2003.

Figure 1.3 is reproduced courtesy of MIT Press Journals from Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, ‘Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1988,’ The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118:1 (February, 2003).

Figure 5.2 is reproduced courtesy of J. Perloff from Wu, X and Perloff, J, China’s Income Distribution over Time: Reasons for Rising Inequality. CUDARE Working Papers 977.

Figure 1.6 is reproduced courtesy of Verso Press from R. Pollin, Contours of Descent, 2003.

Figures 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 and 7.1 are reproduced by kind permission of Gérard Duménil and are available on the website http://www.cebremap.ens.fr/levy. Figures 1.2, 1.5 and 6.2 reprinted by permission of the publisher from Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, translated by Derek Jeffers, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Figure 4.2 is reproduced courtesy Blackwell Publishing from S. Corbridge, Debt and Development, 1993.