Introduction / Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo -- Political power and social inequality : the impact of the state / Yingjie Guo -- Inequality and culture : a new pathway to understanding social inequality / Wanning Sun -- Between social justice and social order : the framing of inequality / David...

1. Political power and social inequality : the impact of the state / Yingjie Guo -- 2. Inequality and culture : a new pathway to understanding social inequality / Wanning Sun -- 3. Between social justice and social order : the framing of inequality / David Kelly -- 4. Temporality as trope in...

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large countries that have expanded their insurance provisions in recent decades, but that lack universal coverage and differ in other social determinants of health. Using comparable health...

Despite robust growth, rising inequality is widespread in many countries. At the same time financial instability and crises are occurring with greater frequency and severity. These two phenomena are related to the contest for a greater share of economic output between labor and capital, with...