For three decades, neoliberalism dominated the global political economy. Defined as an
explicit preference for private over public control, neoliberalism represented a dramatic …

The increase in economic disparities over the past 30 years has prompted extensive
research on the causes and consequences of inequality both in the United States and, more …

References Page 1 Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 1989. Before European Hegemony: The World
System, AD 1250–1350. New York: Oxford University Press. Acemoglu, Daron, and James A …

Modernization theorists from Karl Marx to Daniel Bell have argued that economic
development brings pervasive cultural changes. But others, from Max Weber to Samuel …

Companies are increasingly asked to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems
of human misery, even as economic theory instructs managers to focus on maximizing their …

We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor
Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds …

In this paper we derive and evaluate measures of multigroup segregation. After describing
four ways to conceptualize the measurement of multigroup segregation—as the …

The neoliberal argument says that the distribution of income between all the world's people
has become more equal over the past two decades and the number of people living in …

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent
texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the …

Lynn and Vanhanen test the hypothesis on the causal relationship between the average
national intelligence (IQ) and the gap between rich and poor countries by empirical …