Disparities across social identity groups (such as race, caste, and ethnicity) are a global phenomenon, where significant differences in wealth and other socioeconomic outcomes are observed. Although the contexts and historical roots of these differences vary by country, there are common...

Neoliberalism eviscerated the value-sharing ethos of the post-war Golden Age (1945-73), seeking to maintain social cohesion in civil society by 'managing the discontent of the losers'. This involved reconciling working households to the realities of the neoliberal labour market by means of...

Governments use coercion to aggregate distributed information relevant to governmental objectives-from the prosecution of regime-stability threats to terrorism or epidemics. A cohesive social structure facilitates this task, as reliable information will often come from friends and acquaintances....

Scheduled Caste in India is a most backward group, they are economically, socially, and politically poor people. Most of the people situated in below poverty line. So, the central and state government to provide various schemes and offers for that people. The financial institutions also to...

Contract law is stuck in a loop of path dependency and stale precedent. Its metaphors, like “the meeting of the minds,” are today laughably implausible. Its values, like “consent,” have been stripped of any real meaning. No one reads or understands the overwhelming majority of contracts...

Similar to many low- and middle-income nations, a significant proportion of Indian households rely on out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses to fund their healthcare. Such a high OOP may potentially force the most vulnerable members of society into poverty by forcing them to incur catastrophic medical...

Honors Research: PPE @ UPenn | This thesis seeks to address some of the most central questions to the fields of political philosophy and political economy. How can social order and government develop from anarchy under standard economic assumptions of rationality, where all agents act strictly...

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities. This study aims to adopt a more suitable theoretical lens that is more relevant not only for class identities, but also for other identities such as caste and race. By viewing...

The 2008 great financial crisis brought the question of the cyclical development of capitalism back to the center of political economy. To understand the nature of post-crisis capitalism, it is inevitable to evaluate the literature on the temporal phases of capitalism. This article presents four...

The aim was to identify the determinants of female labour participation and willingness to work in one of the poorest agricultural areas of the Ecuadorian Andes with a high indigenous population. A stratified random sample of 268 women by parish was used to collect the information. Social,...

Collecting from existing literature around the world this paper synthesizes varies substantiations of livelihoods diversification as a stepping towards deagrarianization, its effect on social structural change intending to establish relation between deagrarianization and social structural...

Dieser Standardfragenkatalog soll Forschenden als Hilfestellung für die Konstruktion von Fragebögen dienen. Er ist sowohl für Studien, die sich mit gesellschaftlichen Krisen befassen, als auch generell für die Anwendung in personenbezogenen Umfragen gedacht. Der Katalog empfiehlt Instrumente...

Die Ampelkoalition steht nach einem Regierungsjahr vor großen Herausforderungen. Der Krieg in der Ukraine und die steigenden Preise insbesondere im Bereich der Energie machen den Deutschen Sorgen und sie erwarten unterstützende Maßnahmen des Staates. Eine empirische Analyse der Forderungen...

In Stratification Economics and Disability Justice, Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards explore how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the United States. Presenting evidence of disability-based inequality from economics, sociology,...