Some blame free-market capitalism for increasing income inequality, arguing that the richer classes could block access to others for maintaining their privileges. By manipulating the degree of political rights and resources available to others, the rich could reduce opportunities for others....

This article analyses the intergenerational evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain between 1840 and 1984. With male height data (N=358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation,...