One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xi, 460 pp. Paperback $29.50, ISBN 978-0-674-03632-1. Urban-rural inequality exists in all developing countries. However, this problem is the most acute in China due ...
And the same pattern exists in other market-based nations. But here’s what frustrates me. When I share this data with my left-leaning friends, they seem to have some sort of mental block that prevents them from reaching the obvious conclusion. A few of them will pivot, acknowledge that...
Inequality is when some people lack the rights, opportunities and fair laws of others – and it exists everywhere. Unfortunately, in societies all around the world, people are treated differently and unfairly because of things that make up who they are – things such as race, nationality, gende...
It is logical to assume that for as long as human beings have existed in organized societies, so social inequality has presented itself within these societies as an obstacle to overcome, an instrument to exploit, or at the very least, a reality to accept. Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and ...
(Table1). Given that we characterized equality based on matching degree between population and facilities, population variables were avoided to analyze the impact relationship. HPM for the Gini coefficient of various facilities and their main driving factors supported that the relationship exists in the...
Physical capital is embodied in observable materials and is wholly tangible, whereas social capital exists in the relations between persons and is thus less tangible50. More importantly, unlike physical capital, social capital accumulates through a myriad of repeated and varied interactions, both formal...
Unequal access to incomes and opportunities does more than create unjust, unhealthy, and unhappy societies: it actually kills people. Over the past two years, people have died when they contracted an infectious disease because they did not get vaccines in time, even though those vaccines could ...
Across the globe, a significant difference exists in institutional quality (corruption), income inequality and energy consumption amongst geographical regions. We, therefore, extend the analysis by including regional dummy variables in our regression. The regional dummy variables enable us to control regio...
Uncovering how inequality emerges from human interaction is imperative for just societies. Here we show that the way social groups interact in face-to-face situations can enable the emergence of disparities in the visibility of social groups. These disparities translate into members of specific social...
We construct an unweighted network with an adjacency matrix, Aij = 1, if there exists a link between firm i and j and Aij = 0, otherwise. After removing isolated nodes, parallel links, and self-loops, the network contains N = 230, 970 firms and L = 660, 701 ...