A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

How should historians speak truth to power–and why does it matter? Why is five hundred
years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history …

As a generalization of simple correspondence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis
(MCA) is a powerful technique for handling larger, more complex datasets, including the …

Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a statistical technique that first and foremost has
become known through the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002). This book will …

Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is the name suggested by P. Suppes (Stanford University) to
designate the approach to Multivariate Statistics initiated by Benzécri as Correspondence …

Every now and then, a book comes along that you positively want to be asked to read and
review, and this is one of them a major work of scholarship in its own right, while at the same …

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science,
but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public …

The aim of this article is to show that economic experts are not the product of one single
social field, with one identity and one role. They are rather the product of a trans-epistemic …

This article, in the line of Bourdieu (1989), belongs to the research domain about elites and
the field of power. Using data from the Norwegian Power & Democracy survey on elites …

Drawing on the work of Bourdieu and de Saint-Martin (1978), the purpose of this chapter is
to objectivate elite structures of power and figurations through an analysis of the dominant …