The animosity surrounding the debate on globalization requires that a holistic approach be adopted when analyzing this issue. Globalization is a prismatic phenomenon, which should be looked at in all its manifestations and from different angles. What is globalization? What accounts for the unequal distribution of globalization effects around the world? What is the impact of globalization on the...

This paper sets out a new research design to test for price discrimination by sellers in the housing market. The design controls carefully for unobserved differences in the quality of neighborhoods and homes purchased by buyers of each race, using novel panel data from over two million repeat-sales housing transactions in four metropolitan areas. The results indicate that black and Hispanic hom...

Among the many challenges facing new, or enlarged, nation-states that arose on territories of former empires Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in 1918, few were as vexing complex so-called ‘minorities question’. Thousands disparate communities suddenly discovered they now existed minorities, often areas adjacent to their designated homelands. As an introduction this special issues, arti...

must doctors inform patients of risks in treatment, or of alternative treatments? He rejects the commonly-expressed medical contention that these are essentially matters of technical and professional judgment best left to doctors to decide. Yet these essays show none of the animosity against doctors that some detected in his Reith Lectures; Kennedy's position, rather, is that all such difficult...

Abstract Taking the scriptural concept of ‘heathen’ as its starting point, this article investigates attitudes Protestant ministers and parishioners in England towards conversion indigenous non-Christian people colonial New during years English republic from 1649 to 1660. The examines Psalm 2 a framework within which churchgoers interpreted non-Christianity, before turning fragmentary prosopogr...

Online social platforms have become central in the political debate. In this context, existence of echo chambers is a problem primary relevance. These clusters like-minded individuals tend to reinforce prior beliefs, elicit animosity towards others and aggravate spread misinformation. We study phenomenon on Twitter dataset related 2017 French presidential elections propose method tackle it with...

Housing has always had a close association with refugees but despite this, the knowledge base about housing and its impact in lives of lacks cohesion. The accommodation tends to be connected broader neo-liberal trends, alongside general animosity towards refugees, culminating an overt, or implied, ‘hostile environment’. This paper synthesises available evidence understand several key issues set...