The Consumption Of Inequality
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Author |
: K. Halnon |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2013-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137352491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137352493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Consumption of Inequality by : K. Halnon
The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality.
Author |
: Kenneth H. Kolb |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2021-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520384170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520384172 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Retail Inequality by : Kenneth H. Kolb
What we got wrong -- A concept catches fire -- Food desert realities : perception, money, and transportation -- Food desert realities : social capital, household dynamics, and taste -- The "Healthy food" frame -- The problem solvers -- A path forward -- Epilogue -- Appendix : food desert media database.
Author |
: Gail Dines |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2013-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135251000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135251002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pornography by : Gail Dines
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Christopher D. Carroll |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 517 |
Release |
: 2015-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226126654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022612665X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures by : Christopher D. Carroll
Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States’s current survey practices compare with those in other nations.
Author |
: Georg Fischer |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197545720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197545726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality by : Georg Fischer
European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union. Political leaders and the media often use income trends to measure this progress, with inequality moving more and more to the forefront of these conversations. In this book, contributing authors focus on the economies within the EU, its member countries, and other European countries closely associated with the EU. The book includes an overview of economic and social trends, using long-term processes of European integration as a way to frame the discussions. Georg Fischer, Robert Strauss, and their contributors focus on explaining how policy makers and the media focus on national trends to measure progress among the nations in Europe. They make a specific point to look at the EU as an economic and political entity whose parts are closely interlinked rather than as a conglomerate of individual countries. The contributors consider the commonalities and differences between various institutions and policies, explaining how a decision in one country might impact another. Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality offers a novel approach to the analysis of social and economic trends, and the resulting book identifies major policy challenges applicable in the EU and beyond.
Author |
: Ken-Hou Lin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2020-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190638313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190638311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divested by : Ken-Hou Lin
Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing resources from workers and families into the hands of owners, executives, and financial professionals. The average American is now divested from a world driven by the maximization of financial profit. Lin and Neely provide systematic evidence to document how the ascendance of finance on Wall Street, Main Street, and among households is a fundamental cause of economic inequality. They argue that finance has reshaped the economy in three important ways. First, the financial sector extracts resources from the economy at large without providing economic benefits to those outside the financial services industry. Second, firms in other economic sectors have become increasingly involved in lending and investing, which weakens the demand for labor and the bargaining power of workers. And third, the escalating consumption of financial products by households shifts risks and uncertainties once shouldered by unions, corporations, and governments onto families. A clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America, Divested warns us that the most damaging consequence of the expanding financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises but a widening social divide between the have and have-nots.
Author |
: Christopher Brown |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2008-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848443808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848443803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inequality, Consumer Credit and the Saving Puzzle by : Christopher Brown
. . . provides an excellent example of economic analysis using atypical analytical approaches. . . the book is very accessible, especially to readers with some grounding in economics. Mathematical models and empirical evidence are appropriately used and the writing is superb. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students should be able to follow the analysis and will benefit from seeing the alternative analytics at work. Of course economists of all stripes will find something useful in this book as will anyone with a strong interest in understanding the current economic crisis. Richard V. Adkisson, The Social Science Journal For those who do not mind a stimulating read, the book by Christopher Brown, Inequality, Consumer Credit and the Saving Puzzle, is recommended. . . the book is exciting, tracing the causes for the uncommonly low savings rate in American households. . . this book is written in nearly colloquial language and easily understood. It is divided into eight chapters, each of which addresses one theme group, respectively. The author evaluates in detail literary sources, and also examines alternative approaches, but always returns to his line of thought. Relationships that he perceives as important are exemplified through small models. In addition to that, he always attempts to support the central thesis with statistics. In particular, to read those statistics is very exciting. Conclusion: a book definitely worth reading. Friedrich Thießen, Bankhistorisches Archiv Brown makes an important contribution to the field of consumer credit by presenting a broad view of the issues and problems associated with growing consumer credit habits, culture, and institutions. . . This book effectively uses a heterodox methodology, which will appeal to a wide audience of social scientists. Highly recommended. R.H. Scott, Choice Providing much needed context for current events like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, this timely book presents a vision of an economy evolved to greater dependence on consumer credit and analyzes the trade-offs and risks associated with it. While synthesizing the Keynesian theory of consumption with the Institutional theory of habit selection (brought up to date with new knowledge from evolutionary biology and neuroscience), this book represents an in-depth treatment of the macroeconomic dimensions of consumer credit and implications of recent financial innovations from a non-traditional economic approach. Some of the effects of consumer credit dependence include the potential for illiquidity in markets for debt-collateralized securities, sub-prime contagion, or the possibility of a Minsky-type debt deflation episode. The author also argues that a sharp increase in borrowing by US households over the past 20 years, aided by financial innovations such as the securitization of consumer loans and sub-prime lending, have lessened the harmful consequences of income inequality, and that the collapse of personal saving after 1993 is actually a gradual trend of consumer habits conforming to the imperatives of corporatism. The book s primary audience will be academic economists in sympathy with heterodox and pluralist approaches. It sets forth an institutional or top-down theory of household spending behavior that should be of interest to readers in fields such as sociology, consumer or family studies, psychology, or anthropology. Much of the book is technically accessible for non-economists and students.
Author |
: Medani P. Bhandari |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2022-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000792928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000792927 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economic Inequality – Trends, Traps and Trade-offs by : Medani P. Bhandari
The book “Economic Inequality – Trends, Traps and Trade-offs” presents the unexplored issues of economic inequality, including case studies of various countries. Inequality is a chronic divisive factor of society. It is well known that inequalities (such as economic, social, cultural, religious, geographical, etc.) have been omnipresent in human society. Inequalities can be found within each family, each community, and each nation and thus globally. Inequality is a major cause of political, economic, social instability, and creates crisis and conflict within society. A major cause of inequality is unequal, uneven, biased, power centric distributions of human economic, social, political, cultural and spiritual human necessities.The edited book examines the major parameters of the socio-economic issues of inequality and focuses on the key economic issues of inequality, namely, income and wealth distribution, equity & equality of outcome, and equality of opportunities. Economic inequality is measured by wealth, income dsiproportions in distribution and consumption patterns in a specific area. Mostly, inequality is measured using various statistical tools including the Gini Coefficient, inequality adjusted human development index, 20:20 ratio, Palma ratio, Hoover index, Galt score, Coefficient of variation, Theil index, wage share etc. However, not all income can be measured by these tools. By using case studies, this book encourages us to reframe economic development through the lens of growing inequalities and disparities. Economic growth per se is disproportional, and the efforts of scholars, practitioners and policymakers should be directed to empower the marginalized of society in a way that ‘no one should left behind’ (UN Slogan).
Author |
: Carolyn Mahoney |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2015-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317625759 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317625757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Health, Food and Social Inequality by : Carolyn Mahoney
Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns. This book supplies a fresh social scientific perspective on the health consequences of poor diet. Shifting the focus from individual behaviour to the food supply and the way it is developed and marketed, it discusses what is known about the shaping of food behaviours by both social theory and psychology. Exploring how knowledge of social identities and health beliefs and behaviours are used by the food industry, Health, Food and Social Inequality outlines, for example, how commercial marketing firms supply food companies with information on where to locate snack and fast foods whilst also advising governments on where to site health services for those consuming such foods disproportionately. Giving a sociological underpinning to Nudge theory while simultaneously critiquing it in the context of diet and health, this book explores how social class is an often overlooked factor mediating both individual dietary practice and food marketing strategies. This innovative volume provides a detailed critique of marketing and food industry practices and places class at the centre of diet and health. It is suitable for scholars in the social sciences, public health and marketing.
Author |
: Casey B. Mulligan |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226548392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226548395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality by : Casey B. Mulligan
Focuses on intergenerational mobility, and intergenerational transmission of inequality.