Thomas F. Remington is Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) at Emory University. He is author of a number of books, including Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective (2014) and The Politics of Inequality in Russia (2011). His research concerns the political sources of economic inequality in the United States, Russia, China, and Germany, as well as issues related to education, skill formation, and workforce development. He planned and directed a series of workshops for parliamentarians in Russia from 1993-2007 as advisor for Russia Workshops for the East-West Parliamentary Practice Project, based in Amsterdam. From 1997 to 2002 he held the Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professorship for Global Learning at Emory and led a university-wide faculty seminar on globalization. He was chair of the political science department at Emory from 2001-2007. He is Associate of the Davis Center for

Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. He has been a member of the Boards of Directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

• Chapter One: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Growing Apart: Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth


• Chapter 3: The Theory of Economic Rents


• Chapter 4: Rents and Market Reform


• Chapter 5: The Union of Wealth and Power


• Chapter 6: Financialization, Rents, and Inequality


• Chapter 7: Russia: Autocracy and Oligarchy


• Chapter 8: Market Transition and Inequality in China


• Chapter 9: Germany: The Social Market Economy


• Chapter 10: Necessary Opportunities


• Notes


• Index