Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists
The revised edition of Danny Dorling’s book ‘Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists,’ provides an analysis of contemporary issues and practices underpinning inequality and a concise interpretation of the main causes of the persistence of injustice in rich countries, together with possible solutions.
Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps
The absolute difference between what someone else is getting compared to what you get matters less than how feel about any disparity, according to a review of ‘relative deprivation’ research in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences.’
It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
Social Work’s Ambitious Agenda for Promoting Equality
Seeing a world awash in inequality, three global bodies representing social workers and their educators have united to put addressing these problems on the planet’s front burner.
Public Finance Review’s Special Issue: Analyzing the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Latin America
While Latin America is taking in more tax revenue cumulatively than it did twenty years ago, the International Business Times reported in […]
Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality
Angus Deaton is a social scientist and the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. His Princeton colleague, the philosopher Peter Singer, argues that aid is vital to combat the terrible mortality rates in some countries. Angus Deaton disagrees..
The effect of reverse discrimination on the young
I’m not a huge fan of the topic of racial and gender discrimination. The heated debates that go around it have always […]
Whose Jobs Are These?
In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? Lisa E. […]
