This essay debates the theme of economic inequality from the distribution of disposable income and wealth in developed countries and especially in the United States. The analysis explores the increase in inequality as a result of the transformation of capitalist society have occurred over the past forty years, which led to a devaluation of wages accompanied by greater financialization of income linked to the dynamics of wealth, i.e. the assets held by certain portions of the populations these countries. It adopts an analytical perspective of structural nature, meaning that the increase in inequality that can load the current crisis should be seen as part of its expansion produced by the transformations in capitalist society developed over the past forty years. Over this period, developed capitalism experienced a systematic process of reorganizing the economic, social and politics of their productive structures, institutions of representation and regulation, and the dynamics of capital accumulation. The inequality must be understood as the transformation that took financialization as a relevant instrument for the change in income distribution.
Inequality; Income distribution; Development capitalist; Developed countries; Social regulation
