This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing
cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human …

The prediction of America's decline is a regularly recurring phenomenon; this also pertains
to the pivotal field of global finance. This article argues that, first we have to consider the …

Starting from 2014 the European Union countries, the United States of America and some
other states imposed economic sanctions against Russia, resulting in diversification of trade …

In this article, I evaluate whether educational attainment in Germany is stratified by parental
wealth and at which transitions stratification emerges. I propose a four-stage model to …

Recently, a discussion about the ambiguity of the nexus between social inequality and
anthropogenic CO 2 emissions has emerged. Macroeconomic panel studies applying region …

America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the
richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is …

Although the gender gap in incomes has been extensively researched, scant attention has
been paid to the gender wealth gap. This paper compares the gender wealth gap in …

We present a stochastic, agent-based, binary-transaction Asset-Exchange Model (AEM) for
wealth distribution that allows for agents with negative wealth. This model retains certain …

A gap in estimates of the personal distribution of Canadian wealth between 1902 and 1970
is partly filled, using estate multiplier estimates for 1945–1968. The historical record is …

The average Gini index for sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world's highest. However, since
2000 inequalities in education, health and gender have been significantly reduced, and this …