検索キーワード： 社会階級・経済格差

なぜ我々は「ビンボー」から逃れられないのか。◆減り続ける手取り◆際限なく上がり続ける社会保険料◆進むインフレ◆正社員の崩壊

＜本書の内容の一部＞2025年夏の参議院選挙でも各党がアピールする、就職氷河期世代の支援策。だが、筆者は「現実を無視して“世代”で括ることは、政策をゆがめる」と批判する。

この世界には「移動できる人」と「移動できない人」がいる。 日本人は移動しなくなったのか？ 人生は移動距離で決まるのか？ なぜ「移動格差」が生まれているのか？ 通勤・通学、買い物、旅行、引っ越し、観光、移民・難民、気候危機…… 日常生活か

「自己肯定感」育て、「成長」の希求、「ウェルビーイング」や自発的「リスキリング」の勧め、「自立」の推進、「自分の機嫌」のとり方、「つぶしが利く」能力……。

「中流幻想」ははるか彼方の過去の夢。1980年前後に始まった日本社会の格差拡大は、もはや後戻りができないまでに固定化され、いまや「新しい階級社会」が成立した。

「格差」とは何か？　 世界的ベストセラー『21世紀の資本』著者による大注目作！世界的ベストセラー『21世紀の資本』のトマ・ピケティが、「格差」について考察。

消費トレンドはモノ・コトからマウントへ「こんな素敵な場所に旅行してきました」「こんな美味しい料理を楽しみました」「こんな特別な人と過ごしています」SNSで頻繁に目にするこうした投稿。

●日本人の6人に1人は貧困層、世界で7億人超が絶対的貧困…●世界と日本のデータが明かす「見えない貧困」の真実とは？●読めば、この国の「幸せのかたち」が見えてくる！

「善意」の国際協力は限界を迎えている．アフリカの人びとはSNSや衛星放送で日々目にする豊かな国の暮らしを羨望し，先進国との関係に疑念を抱くようになった．「支援」によって困窮する農村や女性，国際詐欺や陰謀論……

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the...

日本の相対的貧困率15％、資産5億円以上9万世帯。アダム・スミスからピケティまで格差と経済学の歴史を辿り、日本の道を考える。

習い事や家族旅行は贅沢？子どもたちから何が奪われているのか？この社会で連鎖する「もうひとつの貧困」の実態とは？日本初の全国調査が明かす「体験ゼロ」の衝撃！

資本主義に代わる次世代の経済として、EUを中心に今、世界で推進される「社会的連帯経済」。みんなが経営者となって働く労働者協同組合、NPOや社会的企業、地域通貨など利益追求を目的としない組織が連携し、新しい経済圏を形作る経済を指す。

あなたは既に「貧民」かもしれない——“瀕死の病人”日本経済の処方箋を示す！

かつて「一億総中流社会」と言われた日本。戦後、日本の経済成長を支えたのは、企業で猛烈に働き、消費意欲も旺盛な中間層の人たちだった。しかし、バブル崩壊から30年が経ったいま、その形は大きく崩れている。

Modern Chains examines a truth we have been conditioned to ignore: our financial system functions as a silent mechanism of enslavement. Drawing on centuries of history, philosophy, and moral reasoning, author Neal Flesher reveals how our fiat monetary order corrodes human dignity and fractures communities. This book delivers a powerful appeal to moral clarity.

「いつかはクラウン」から「毎日100円ショップ」の時代へ　
もはや「中流」ではない。「下流」なのだ

「下流」とは、単に所得が低いということではない。

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.

Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John...

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.

*The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix!* Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our...

格差の拡大は確かに問題ではあるが、それを「封建制」と言うのは大げさだと思うかもしれない。しかし、本書を読めば、そのような認識が甘かったことに気付くであろう。

The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.

In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class. Following them for over 10 years as they transition from teens to young adults, Streib examines who falls from the upper-middle-class, how, and why don't they see it coming. In doing so, she reveals the patterned ways that individuals' resources and identities push them onto mobility paths - and the complicated choices youth make between staying true to themselves and staying in their class position. 

What if the problem isn’t you—but the system you’re living in? In The American Nightmare Project, sociologist Eric Leo delivers a clear, first-person breakdown of why life in the United States has become unaffordable for millions of people—even those who work constantly and do everything they were told to do. This is not a motivational book. It’s an explanation.

Brought to you by Penguin. These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the...

The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America.

In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky—the economic struggles, trauma, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard’s sense of justice and solidarity, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself.

Peasants dismantles enduring myths about this forgotten class as archaic or backward, revealing instead a fiercely adaptive and politically indispensable majority whose fate is inseparable from our own. Travelling from Indian sugar fields to the rice landscapes of Cambodia, the coca valleys of Peru to Ghana's cocoa belt, Maryam Aslany explores contemporary peasant worlds to uncover the exploitative systems that power global markets – and the human lives at their core.

Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Global poverty - and the growing divide between "developing" and "developed" countries - has to do with how the global economy has been designed over the course of 500 years. Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of The Economist’s Best Books of the Year! In this “affecting…intriguing…heartbreaking” (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the...

Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, upends the traditional thinking around how education should work and tries to get to the bottom of why we often reward the wrong people.