Research on social inequalities is going through a period of resurgence in public health and
epidemiology. The main thrust of the program's empirical studies involves correlations …

This chapter analyzes the evidence presented in support of the assumed superiority of
neoliberal policies. Living and working in both the United States and Europe provide the …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban
Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing …

American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other
economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits …

" Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely."--The Philadelphia
Inquirer In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to …

What models of distributive justice can the twenty-first century promote to challenge the
spread of insecurity, inequality and social fragmentation? The twentieth century was …

Poverty is not simply the result of an individual's characteristics, behaviors or abilities.
Rather, as David Brady demonstrates, poverty is the result of politics. In Rich Democracies …

The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care,
but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and …

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that
realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau …

The resurgence of extreme poverty and destitution, ethnoracial divisions (linked to the
colonial past) and public violence, and their accumulation in the same distressed urban …