The return of inequality: social change and the weight of the past

Introduction: What is the challenge of inequality?

Part 1. Locating inequality in time and space

Turning the telescope: the economic analysis of income distribution

Society as a sports field: the challenge of Bourdieu

Renewing Marx: capital accumulation and the weight of history

Part 2. Inequality, empire, and the decline of nations

The ranking of nations

The return of empire: inequality on a global scale

Insiders and outsiders: class, gender and race in historical perspective

Visceral inequality in the 21st century

Cities and accumulation

The force of information and technology

Part 3. The politics of inequality in the twenty-first century

Reinstating the time of politics

What is to be done?