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countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality …Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality …
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used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is … in-group thus diminishing class solidarity that one may expect to occur between workmates. JEL Categories: Z13 N37, O15 …
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and consolidation of class society and inequality. Money, class society, and inequality came into being simultaneously, so …This paper explores the rise of money and class society in ancient Greece, drawing historical and theoretical parallels … transformation from egalitarian to class societies. In this context, money served to preserve the façade of social and economic …
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countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …
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President Trump's faux populism may deliver some immediate short-term benefits to the economy, masking the devastating long-term effects from his overall policy strategy. The latter can be termed "welfare state sabotage" and is a wholesale assault on essential public sector institutions and...
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every agent's class and exploitation status emerges in the competitive equilibrium, that there is a correspondence between … an agent's class and exploitation status, and that the existence of exploitation is inherently linked to the existence of …
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This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in general accumulation economies with … emergence and persistence of exploitation and class are investigated, and the role of labour-saving technical change and, even … logically coherent and empirically relevant analysis of inequalities and class relations in advanced capitalist economies. An …
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that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …
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approach of the supplier, but the best approach is unknown. Diversity of approaches is desirable because it generates an option … a low bid and a high bid. This allows the buyer to implement any level of diversity with the lowest revenue for the …, auctions implement the socially optimal diversity, but usually with higher rents for the suppliers. Fixed-prize tournaments …
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approach of the supplier, but the best approach is unknown. Diversity of approaches is beneficial because of the resulting … option value. An auction induces the social optimum, while a fixed-prize tournament induces insufficient diversity. The … prizes. This allows the buyer to implement any level of diversity at the lowest cost. …
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