Tag: inequality

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged BCS/CSEW, British Crime Survey, crime, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Danny Dorling, financial crisis, Interpersonal violence, Police, Poverty, Property, recession | Leave a comment

The Formula

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: January 24, 2013

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Research Methods | Also tagged CIA, Economic Justice, Gini Coefficient, Gini Index, income, Income inequality, Jon Stewart, Namibia, Nigeria, Occupy Wall St., Research Index, social science, statistics, World Bank | 2 Comments

Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: November 8, 2012

New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.

Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged 47%, behavioral science, Christine Ma-Kellams, economics, Empathy, Experiments, Finance, Jim Blascovich, pacific standard, Psychology, Romney, Santa Barbara, Science of Ethics, social science, Tom Jacobs, UNiversity of California | 1 Comment

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 29, 2012

Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, economics, elite, Martin Gilens, middle class, policy, political science, Politics, social science, The Monkey Cage | Leave a comment

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 24, 2012

In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge from those of the affluent. This inequality is pervasive: I found no circumstances during the decades I examined in which the middle-class had as much influence as the well-off, or the poor as [...]

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, Class, Classism, economics, elite, government policy, Government responsiveness, Martin Gilens, middle class, political science, The Monkey Cage | Leave a comment

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 1 of 3)

By The Monkey Cage | Published: August 16, 2012

If policy influence becomes so unequal that the wishes of most citizens are ignored most of the time, a country’s claim to be a democracy is cast in doubt. And that is exactly what I found in my analyses of the link between public preferences and government policy in the U.S.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Affluence and Influence, democracy, Economic Inequality, economics, Graphs, impact, Martin Gilens, middle class, policy, political science, The Monkey Cage | 8 Comments

Conference Brings Global Focus to Socal Inequality

By Social Policy Association | Published: July 16, 2012

Academics from all over the world gather in York this week for one of the most significant conferences of social policy researchers in the UK in recent times. Two of the biggest social policy associations in the world – the Social Policy Association (SPA) and the East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP) – have [...]

Posted in International Debate, News, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Caroline Glendinning, China, Chinese immigrants, Conservative government, East Asian Social Policy Research Network, John Hills, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Misa Izuhara, NHS, NHS Reform, Patricia Kennett, policy, Privatisation, Social Policy Association, Social Policy in an Unequal World, social science, University of York | 1 Comment

Danny Dorling on Inequality

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2012

We live in an age of economic inequality. The rich are growing richer relative to the poor. Does this matter? In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Danny Dorling, a human geographer, discusses this question with Nigel Warburton.

Posted in Announcements, Audio, Communication, Public Engagement, Resources | Also tagged Danny Dorling, podcast, social science | 8 Comments

“Journals Serving as Tombstones” 学术期刊只是墓碑

By dannyquah | Published: January 24, 2012

In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that....

Posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform, Science & Social Science | Also tagged economics, superstars | 1 Comment

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