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Measuring Income Inequality Using a Graduated Poll Tax: Spain, 1874–1943
Spain’s historical trajectory of income inequality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has remained relatively absent from wider debates on long-run inequality, largely
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The Global Justice Platform: Distributional Pathways, the Global Justice Fund and the New Democratic International Order, 2026-2100
The declining hegemony of existing powers and the emergence of a multipolar world order make the rethinking of global economic governance under climate constraints both
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Cutting hours through outsourcing
Over recent decades, rising inequality between firms and the fragmentation of production have reshaped labour markets. One key mechanism is the “fissuring” of firms, where
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Land Inequality in India: Nature, History, and Markets
Land is one of the most important productive assets in agrarian societies, yet its distribution remains highly unequal across many parts of the world. Rural
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Extreme Income Inequality in Ecuador – Dollarization, Commodity Price Boom, and Citizen Revolution
Despite growing interest in inequality in Latin America, long-term evidence for countries like Ecuador has remained limited, especially when it comes to capturing top incomes.
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Conflicting Claims and Taxation: A Distributive History of 20th Century Peru
Over the past century, Peru has experienced sharp distributive shifts shaped by external dependency, political cycles, and changing power relations between labor and capital. Yet
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The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits
How does the international system actually work in practice? Who holds decision-making power, who finances global public goods, and who ultimately benefits from them? More
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Should Charitable and Political Donations Benefit from Similar Tax Treatments? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
In many countries, charitable and political donations benefit from generous, and often similar tax incentives, despite serving very different purposes. While the responsiveness of charitable
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Terms of Trade and North-South Relations: Implications for Foreign Wealth Accumulation and Comparative Development (1962-2025)
Since the 1960s, many low- and middle-income countries have remained heavily specialized in primary commodity exports, fueling long-standing debates about deteriorating terms of trade, unequal
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