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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 152–171.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of technological change, and continuous “learning by doing.” In the last two decades, CEPAL’s interest has focused on issues of inequality in the global region that is still the most unequal in the world. Correspondence may be addressed to Joseph L. Love, 922 West Armory Ave., Champaign, IL 61821; e-mail: j...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 March 1982
... if the precise conceptual meaning were set forth in the
discussion.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County CHARLESF. PEAKE
Marx on Exploitation and Inequality: An Essay in Marxian Analytical Eco-
nomics. By Arun Bose. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 237.
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 435–454.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Giacomo Gabbuti The Italian contribution to the emergence of modern inequality measurement has been, so far, mainly discussed from a methodological standpoint, or has focused on Vilfredo Pareto’s theoretical contribution. This article offers a first survey of the Italian empirical literature...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 589–607.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Alice O’Connor This essay explores two critical moments in the recent history of US inequality, when economic measures drew attention to gaping disparities in the American political economy: the early 1960s, when popularized social statistical reporting led to the “discovery” of, and declaration...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 609–619.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Sanjay Reddy Correspondence may be addressed to Sanjay G. Reddy at: [email protected] . Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Amiel Yoram Cowell Frank 1999 . Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions . Cambridge...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 183–208.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Terenzio Maccabelli Pareto was probably the first economist to suggest a way of measuring the inequality of incomes. But the interpretation of his index α came to be an object of contrasting judgments. This paper offers a reconstruction of the debate that involved Pareto's index, aimed...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 519–538.
Published: 01 June 2020
...James Tomlinson In the context of the recent spread of public and academic concern with economic inequality, this paper examines the evolution of British social democratic thinking about inequality, linking this evolution to the changing debates within economics on this issue. The discussion...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (2): 287–309.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Joseph Persky The study of luck in moral and political philosophy has generated two camps: the ``luck egalitarians,'' who see justice as demanding aggressive efforts to reduce inequalities produced by luck broadly conceived, and the advocates of ``democratic equality,'' who emphasize traditional...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to maintain an ironic distance from the inequality and greed that he saw around him while arguing that it did no harm, and allowed him to resolve, at least to his own satisfaction, an age-old debate about the ethical and political consequences of luxury consumption. Some of these themes were further developed...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 473–497.
Published: 01 June 2020
... important tensions in postcolonial expertise. They also help recover earlier framings of inequality, which centered on midcentury concerns about “levels of living” and economic power, rather than the simple distribution of income. Correspondence may be addressed to Poornima Paidipaty: p.paidipaty...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 561–587.
Published: 01 June 2020
... research. The article contends that methodological breakthroughs—including microeconometric counterfactuals and market ethnography—become salient fixtures in the public appraisal of inequality and in the creation of national political futures. Correspondence may be addressed to Moisés Kopper...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (1): 115–141.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Michael Schneider This article traces the development of the methods of representing the degree of income inequality that were developed in the early twentieth century by Max Otto Lorenz and Corrado Gini. It suggests that Gini’s efforts to perfect the Lorenz curve may well have facilitated his...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (4): 595–631.
Published: 01 August 2021
... in Princeton as well as his reading of Walras’s, Wicksell’s and Cassel’s work would be key. I also explain how he came to realize that there existed a formal analogy between systems of linear equations and inequalities with which he characterized (stationary and dynamic) economies and the minimax theorem...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 413–434.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . 2013 . “ Deceptive Data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour 1928–31 .” Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History ( 16 ). www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/docs/CWPESH_number_16_Oct_2013.pdf . Alacevich Michele Soci Anna 2017 . A Short History of Inequality . Newcastle...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 1996
... of inequality” in society.
Undoubtedly, Smith’s major emphasis is on justice in individual ex-
changes, or commutativejustice. Comprehensive adherence to the canons
of commutative justice through a system of natural liberty provides the
best guarantee of the emergence of benevolent distribution...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl_1): 228–245.
Published: 01 December 2006
... maximization. He developed a con-
dition called cyclical consistency as well as a set of inequalities that are
now called the Afriat inequalities to answer this question. The Afriat
inequalities contain unobservable utility levels (Ui), marginal utilities of
income (µi), and consumption bundles.7 Using...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (4): 801–808.
Published: 01 August 2020
... de l inégalité parmi les hommes ([1755] 1964)? What is true of Rousseau is also true of the Marquis de Condorcet as demonstrated in his Esquisse d un tableau historique des progrès de l esprit humain (1794 or 1795) where inequality among human beings is recognized and analyzed and where solutions...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., the average earnings of full-time employed women are about 18 percent lower than the average incomes of full-time employed men (“Women Are Paid Less Than Men” 2022 ). The gender wage gap figures prominently in debates around inequality. Along with the NCPE, progressive organizations like the Economic...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 283–285.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and the Review of Radical Political Economics. Evelyn L. Forget is a professor of economics and community health sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (Canada). Her research examines the health and social implications of poverty and inequality, and she is often called upon by governments...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (2): 373–376.
Published: 01 April 2022
... economic treatises to shape national policies with respect to trade and inequality. Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought aims to expand beyond Viner's contribution by analyzing how the classic view of divine providence was drawn upon by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century economic writers...
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