This article contributes to the growing literature on colonial legacies influencing long‐term development. It focuses on Botswana, a case where the post‐independence diamond‐led economy has been considered an economic success story, despite its high levels of inequality. Here it is argued...

Mit seinen voluminösen Bestsellern "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert" und "Kapital und Ideologie" hat Thomas Piketty eine internationale Debatte über die Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit in Gang gebracht. Sein neues Buch ist eine bewusst komprimierte Weltgeschichte der sozialen Konflikte und...

This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries,...