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This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this … purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno … of Christian and Druze children are less dependent on their family characteristics compared to Muslim and Jewish children …
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class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 … plethora of middle class indicators, notably, the: floating, middle-class with floating, middle-class without floating, lower … broadly show that GDP per capita and education positively affect all middle class dependent variables. However, we have seen a …
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This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Drawing on a process-tracing analysis, it argues that the emergence of foreign-led economies in the late 1990s was intertwined with political processes in...
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In various writings Karl Marx made references to an ‘aristocracy of finance’ in Western Europe and the United States that dominated ownership of the public debt. Drawing on original research, this article offers the first comprehensive analysis of public debt ownership within the US...
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In various writings Karl Marx made references to an ‘aristocracy of finance’ in Western Europe and the United States that dominated ownership of the public debt. Drawing on original research, this paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of the pattern of public debt ownership within...
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Rethinking resistance, power and production.
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Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or 'abstract labour', respectively....
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PREAMBLE BY PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ: In a unique two-pronged dovetailing discussion, frequent collaborators and coauthors Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler discuss the nature of contemporary capitalism. Their central argument is that the dominant approaches to studying the market – liberalism and...
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greater control over subordinates, I hypothesize, that explains the income and class of the very rich. I test this idea using … portion of their income. This suggests that among CEOs, both income size and income class relate to hierarchical power. I then … plausible. Using this model, I infer the relation between income size, income class, and hierarchical power among the US public …
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previous 1958 birth cohort. We also analyse variations in returns by degree subject and by class of degree. Our analysis … substantially and (ii) evidence of differences in returns to a first degree according to subject area of study and class of degree …
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