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...

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...