Part I: Framworks -- PPE as an intellectual enterprise / Geoffrey Brennan and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- On models and their uses / James Johnson -- Complexity / Fred D'Agosino -- PPE in Marx's materialist conception of history / Vanessa Wills -- Feminist theory / Ann E. Cudd -- Part II:...

Abstract In den Sozialwissenschaften wird vermehrt auf den Begriff der „Prekarität“ zurückgegriffen, um die Transformation der Arbeitsgesellschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die sozialen Arrangements von Erwerbsarbeit zu analysieren. In diesem Beitrag wird dafür plädiert,...

"In this paper, we explore differential changes in house prices across neighborhoods within a city to better understand the nature of house price dynamics across cities. First, we document in detail that there is substantial and systematic heterogeneity in house price dynamics within a city...

It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste order turn out to influence the expression of these...