CAPITALISM AND INEQUALITY

Capitalism, Complexity, and Inequality

Under capitalism there is a potential for increasing socioeconomic complexity and greater specialization of skills. One implication is that there is a potential for increasing inequalities of wealth, income, and power on both a national and international scale. What follows is an updated, broad-brush account of possible future developments in a knowledge-intensive capitalist economy. They can t...

Rodrigo’s Abstraction: Capitalism Inequality & Reform Over Time and Space

Inequality and Support for Restributive Policy: One World of Post-Communism, Two Worlds of Western Capitalism

This paper deals with attitudes towards inequality by comparing a number of post-communist and western capitalist societies. The data are from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) of 1992. As a first step, basic differences in attitudes are described. In comparison East Europeans perceive on average slightly more distributional conflicts, criticize income differences more strongly a...

Global Health in the Anthropocene: Moving Beyond Resilience and Capitalism; Comment on “Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality”

There has been much reflection on the need for a new understanding of global health and the urgency of a paradigm shift to address global health issues. A crucial question is whether this is still possible in current modes of global governance based on capitalist values. Four reflections are provided. (1) Ecological–centered values must become central in any future global health framework. (2) ...

Capitalism and Society

This is a theoretical paper in which we attempt to present an economic and sociological theory of entrepreneurship. We start from Schumpeter’s idea in Theory of Economic Development that the economy can be conceptualized as a combination and innovations as new combinations. Schumpeter also spoke of resistance to entrepreneurship. By linking the ideas of combination and resistance, we are in a p...