Inequalities – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Yoko Nishimura
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality

This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 …

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Robin Fleming
Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain

Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Provinceargues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more vis…

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Ines A Ferreira, Rachel M Gisselquist, Finn Tarp
Dimensions of Inequality

An authoritative, open access introduction to how and why inequality matters for individuals and societies, with ample in-depth illustrative examples from the Global South.

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Diretnan Dikwal-Bot
Blogging and Gender Activism in Nigeria

Gender, Development and Social Change

This book critically examines the interplay between gender inequality and activism in Nigeria and related African contexts. It does so by tackling, for the first time, the vibrant world of Nigerian blogs,…

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Finn Tarp, Rachel M Gisselquist, Ines A Ferreira
Dimensions of Inequality

An authoritative, open access introduction to how and why inequality matters for individuals and societies, with ample in-depth illustrative examples from the Global South.

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Rebecca Wetter
Meritocratic Beliefs and the Persistence of Educational Inequality

Educational success remains strongly linked to social background. However, there is no growing concern about this, which could be explained by meritocratic beliefs that success primarily depends on indivi…

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Alejandro I Canales, Dídimo Castillo Fernández,
Against Inequality

Against Inequality offers a bold theoretical and political proposal for social emancipation.The book recasts social emancipation not only as an opportunity to build conditions of equality in contexts of f…

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Tatiana Voronina,
Collective Farmers, Master Science

Soviet authorities had long aimed to create a classless society and eliminate the differences between the city and the countryside. Collective Farmers, Master Science! describes the Russian peasantry's tr…

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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Yoko Nishimura
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality

This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 …

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Francesco Farina
The Rise of Inequality and the Fall of Social Mobility

Social mobility in political science, economics, and sociology.- 2. Meritocracy.- 3. Social mobility.- 4. The social dynamics: an interpretative scheme.- 5. A phenomenon pending between the individual and…

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Jillian M Duquaine-Watson
Prescription for Inequality

This book explores how social determinants of health (SDH) impact the health of a variety of marginalized demographic groups in the USA.Chapters focus on the 13 groups that research demonstrates are most …

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Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
A Capital's Capital

The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulat…

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David Lay Williams
The Greatest of All Plagues

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Rita Kesselring
Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province

Rita Kesselring provides a compelling ethnographic account of the wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for metal …

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Daniel Markovits
The Meritocracy Trap

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracyIt is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and …

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Walter Scheidel
The Great Leveler

The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, Princeton Classics

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge…

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Matthew Chidozie Ogwu, Sylvester Chibueze Izah
Climate Frontiers and Social Transformation

World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures

This book examines how climate change is reshaping not just the environment, but also global politics, economies, and societies. Through a systems-level analysis, it demonstrates the link between ecologic…

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Maurizio Bovi
The Dual Challenge of Tolerable Economic Inequality

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

This book tackles two central challenges in the discourse on economic inequality. First, there is no consensus on what constitutes a morally acceptable inequality, as even philosophers struggle to concept…

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Shin Young Park
(Why) Do Women Stay Inactive?

Introduction.- State of Research: A Literature Review.- Research Questions, Objectives, Relevance and Methodology of the Dissertation.- Theoretical Framework.- Empirical Research.- Summary of Findings.- D…

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