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Chapter Solution Combustion Synthesis: Applications in Oxide Electronics
In this article, the degree of concentration of wages in Spain at the provincial and regional levels is estimated using the latest available micro-data corresponding to the Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 (N = 216.769). From the analysis of the statistics obtained, it is possible to know in detail the spatial distribution of national wage inequality, to identify those areas where inequality i…
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Chapter Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800: methods and r…
This article provides an overview of the research done in recent years by the ERC-funded projects EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800, and SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800. It begins by discussing the sources available for reconstructing preindustrial economic inequality, especially in Italy, then it provides an overview of the meth…
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Chapter Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800
The chapter reviews existing evidence regarding four aspects of economic inequality: relative factor rents, which relate to the factorial distribution of income and also underlie the so-called Williamson index (y/wus), which is correlated with the Gini index of household income; real inequality in terms of opposite movements of the price of consumer baskets consumed by different strata of socie…
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Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender equality policy
Such developments have been typical of the European Union’s (EU) gender equality policy. In comparison to other international institutions, the EU has been seen as a progressive gender equality actor
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Chapter 35: Power and inequalities: lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics
This chapter argues that AI ethics needs to engage with structures of power and inequalities. It draws lessons learned from critiques AI ethics has received of ineffectiveness and highlights that a key issue is the way mainstream ethics tends to systematically neglect power relations and structures of inequalities. The chapter then argues for a situated ethics. It points to the need to implemen…
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Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Inequality
We would like to thank the following individuals for their professional and personal support, past and present: Greg Muller, Colleen Graber, Sam Singh, Rob Fowler, Bryan Beverly, Jonathan Plucker, Richard Houang, Lee Cogan, Bill Schmidt, David Rutkowski, Leslie Rutkowski, Bob Geier, Chris Torres, Laura Greene, Sharon Zuschlag, Alex Gardner, and Danielle Whittaker. This book wouldn’t h…
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Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare = Recognising Agency and Promoting Vir…
This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, a…
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From Colonialism to International Aid = External Actors and Social Protection…
This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies. Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which exte…
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Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context
This open access book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially disengaged groups.The book departs from a theoretical framework in which cultural practices and cultural participation in their most visible and tangible form are …
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Global Citizenship Education = Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought…
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