Karl Marx’s theories on communism and capitalism formed the basis of Marxism. His key theories were a critique of capitalism and its shortcomings. Marx thought that the capitalistic system would inevitably destroy itself. The oppressed workers would become alienated and ultimately overthrow the owners...
Your next choice isThe Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequalityby Angus Deaton. This focuses on one particular aspect of this problem with production and an income-driven approach to assessing our well-being. Can you tell us a bit about this book? What is the nature of...
Presents a list of books on political and military sociology. "Reexamination of the Linkage Between Income Inequality and Political Violence," by Kong H. Park; "Moderate-Extreme and Left-Right Sources of Youth Politics. A Typology," by Rich...
Book on inequality In this long work Thomas Piketty systematically introduces the main factors that drove the economy to the big problem of capitalism: income inequality. The main driver of inequality is again threatening to generate extreme dissatisfaction among people and weakens democratic values. Th...
Analysing Chinese Grey Incomewas written by Wang Xiaolu, a senior scholar in the China Reform Foundation. The latter was originally set up by the government but probably now relies on private funding, like the money Credit Suisse would have paid for this report. This is Wang’s second income...
I have a layman’s interest in physics. The problem is, I am not quite smart enough. Close, but not quite. So in my reading on the subject I always seem to come up just short of really understanding. If this sounds like you, here’s our book! Chapter 13 was my favorite. ...
Michael G. Marmot is a renowned epidemiologist and public health expert, widely recognized for his pioneering work on the social determinants of health. His research has significantly influenced the field of public health, shedding light on how social factors such as income, education, and occupation...
Celebrity memoirs aren’t always known for their candor. But Jessica Simpson this year delivered a remarkable entry into the canon with her aptly namedOpen Book. The insightful, vulnerable memoir relies on two decades of Simpson’s journal entries, covering everything from her years as a pop st...
Indeed, even more than the experience of self-reliance that the war bestowed on many women—symbolized in the United States by the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter—what shaped our relation to reproduction in the postwar period, especially in Europe, was the memory of the carnage into which...
Yes, she’s a political columnist. This book is a compilation of articles she has written over the years under a couple of broad categories. So she’s got one about the class divide, whichThis isWhat Inequality Looks Liketouches on as well. Then there’s “Brave New World Disruption,”...