Archive
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Working Paper
CommentaryAnalysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Apr 2018
As early as 1900, German sociologist Georg Simmel identified a central feature of wealth in his seminal work The Philosophy of Money. Simmel writes about the superadditum of wealth for the rich, namely that a great fortune is encircled by innumerable possibilities of use, as though by an astral body.
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YSI Event
1. African Economies in Transition
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3. Revisiting and Confronting the Challenges of African Development
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4. Rethinking Cooperatives and the African Agenda
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5. The Current Challenges of a Complex Reality
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2. New Approaches to African Economic History
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6. A Critical Engagement with Financial Stability in Africa
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10. Perspectives on the Challenges for Sustainable Development in Africa
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9. Rethinking Political Economy: the State & Pluralist Economics Teaching
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7. The Gender Division of Labour; Diversity and Change
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8. Inequality in Africa
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Article
Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Apr 13, 2018
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy
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Working Paper
Working paperA Distorting Mirror: Major Media Coverage of Americans’ Tax Policy Preferences
Apr 2018
Over the last four decades, Americans have consistently told pollsters that they favor higher taxes on business and the wealthy, even as tax policy has moved sharply in the other direction.
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Collection
The Growing BRICS Economies
A series on the changing economic dynamics of the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Article
The Growing BRICS Economies: An INET Series
Apr 12, 2018
The BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—play a crucial and growing role in the world economy. Sanjay Reddy kicks off our series exploring shifting social and economic dynamics within these countries, and what they mean for the global economy.