Imbalance, Inequality, Injustice

Equity by the Numbers: Measuring Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 551 I. EQUITY METRICS: AN OVERVIEW .......................................................... 559 A. Inequality Metrics .................................................................... 560 B. Social Welfare Functions ......................................................... 566 C. Poverty...

Effort-reward imbalance, procedural injustice and relational injustice as psychosocial predictors of health: complementary or redundant models?

OBJECTIVE Effort-reward imbalance at work is an established psychosocial risk factor but there are also newer conceptualisations, such as procedural injustice (decisions at work lack consistency, openness and input from all affected parties) and relational injustice (problems in considerate and fair treatment of employees by supervisors). The authors examined whether procedural injustice and re...

National Patterns in Environmental Injustice and Inequality: Outdoor NO2 Air Pollution in the United States

We describe spatial patterns in environmental injustice and inequality for residential outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations in the contiguous United States. Our approach employs Census demographic data and a recently published high-resolution dataset of outdoor NO2 concentrations. Nationally, population-weighted mean NO2 concentrations are 4.6 ppb (38%, p<0.01) higher for nonwhites tha...

Rational Injustice

Different attempts have been made to answer Reich's question why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike. The two most influential approaches have been the ideological one and the gunman theory. The gunman theory seems to have the upper hand in that it not only explains many cases of successful oppression by a minority of a m...

The Disutility of Injustice