Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked
to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and …

Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

Recent proposals in the US and elsewhere aim to tackle climate change and socioeconomic
inequalities together through a Green New Deal (GND). GND proposals have been criticized …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

This study investigates a largely ignored contributor to wealth inequality in the United States:
damages from natural hazards, which are expected to increase substantially in coming …

At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians
became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the …

Do cultural values enhance financial and subjective well-being (SWB)? Taking a
multidisciplinary approach, we meta-analytically reviewed the field, found it thinly covered …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

With new nationwide longitudinal survey data now available from the China Family Panel
Studies (CFPS), we study the level, distribution, and composition of household wealth in …