Tag: Inequality

The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies

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March 20, 2024

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Branko Milanovic, 2017.

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Branko Milanović’s Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War is an intellectual history of how leading economists since the 18th century, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, have thought about

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NAACP Image Awards 2024: Queen Latifah, 53, makes FOUR epic outfit changes and addresses pay inequality for Black actresses as she hosts ceremony second year in a row

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Queen Latifah returned as host of the NAACP Image Awards for the second year in a row on Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.

The multi-hyphenate, 53, made four epic outfit changes throughout the star-studded evening honoring Black excellence in film, TV, music and literature in 2023.

She kicked off the festivities with a speech that made mention of the ‘pay inequality’ experienced by Black actresses in Hollywood.

Latifah credited The Color Purple’s Taraji P. Henson for bringing the

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Is Italy’s Meloni failing to deliver for women? – POLITICO

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ROME — At the end of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius in July, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wound up her press conference abruptly. It had nothing to do with the reporters’ questions, she said: her high heels were killing her. 

A complaint of that kind at such a hothouse of masculine energy as a NATO summit would have been unimaginable for a previous generation of female leaders, who

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Why London’s mayor just can’t scrap his clean air plan – POLITICO

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LONDON — Sadiq Khan is under pressure to ditch a controversial plan to clean up London’s air after a bruising by-election for the mayor’s Labour colleagues. But scrapping the plan is no panacea — and critics will have to explain what replaces it.

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) aims to reduce the U.K. capital’s emissions of nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide (referred to together as NOx) by imposing a charge on polluting vehicles when they enter the zone. It’s

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Gender Inequality Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis in Japan

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The Liz Truss Manifesto – POLITICO

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LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.

Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.

The

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Pandemic Parenting’s Crisis of Inequality

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At the start of the 2020 lockdown, we had a 3-year-old who needed near-constant supervision. My third grader, in public school, generally had about an hour’s worth of unchallenging remote lessons a day. We were grateful that our downstairs tenant, who lives alone and is a freelancer, agreed to share a bubble with us and provide 20 hours a week of child care in exchange for a break on rent.

My husband has a challenging job and makes more

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Treffen Sie die Covid Inequality Fellows von MIT Technology Review

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Im Frühjahr 2021 kündigte MIT Technology Review ein Stipendium an, das sich auf die Erforschung der verschiedenen Arten des Einsatzes von Technologie und Daten konzentriert, um Probleme der Ungleichheit während der Pandemie anzugehen.

Mit Unterstützung der Heising-Simons Foundation – einer in Los Altos und San Francisco, Kalifornien, ansässigen Familienstiftung, die Projekte mit den Schwerpunkten Klima und saubere Energie, Gemeinschaft und Chancen, Bildung, Menschenrechte und Wissenschaft unterstützt – zielte unser Aufruf darauf ab, Journalisten zu finden die nachdenklich und mit Einblick

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How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO

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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.

Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.

Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge

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