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 …

At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians
became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the …

Realism–or at least the 'critical realism'that I want to defend–is not what many people think it
is. Many suppose that realism claims a privileged access to the Truth and thus involves a …

Why were some countries able to build" developmental states" in the decades after World
War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience …

Yoksulluk gerçeği, son yıllarda Türkiye'de derinleşiyor, boyutlanıyor, çeşitleniyor. Buna
karşılık, görünmezleştiriliyor da... Yirmi otuz yıl öncesinde daha çok bir “acıma” nesnesi olan …

This article examines tenant exploitation and landlord profit margins within residential rental
markets. Defining exploitation as being overcharged relative to the market value of a …

In this study of the school system of an Indiana town, Ellen Brantlinger studies educational
expectations within segments of the middle class that have fairly high levels of attainment …

Over the last 50 years, the community of heterodox economists has expanded, and its
publications have proliferated. But its power in departments of economics has waned …

Around the world, curriculum–hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities–has been
dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and …

I want to begin by speaking about two moments, themselves rather far apart chronologically,
that motivated me to write this book. I was at a conference a few years ago in which three …