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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dieser Aufsatz resümiert 30 Jahre wirtschaftsethischer Theoriearbeit und stellt hierzu insbesondere das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm vor.

This paper develops a general theory of socio-economic stratification based on the interconnection between a specific micro-level mechanism and a broad macro-level process. At the micro-level, it examines selective social identity stigmatization; at the macro-level it explains social exclusion...

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

Emigration has the potential to shape the political dynamics at the point of origin because it can expose migrants to new political ideas, augment their human capital, and change their expectations of their home environment. We study the effects of indentured migration from India to British...

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

That inequality varies within and between groups is well understood. We explore how inequality can also be "fractal," salient not only between sub-groups of groups but also between sub-groups of sub-groups. We demonstrate this, as a proof of concept using a limited sample, in the case of Bihar...