Inequality

Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups.

Educational inequality, the unequal distribution of academic resources to socially excluded communities.

Gender inequality, unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals due to their gender.

Participation inequality, the phenomenon in which a small percentage of people contributes the majority of information to the total outcome.

Racial inequality, hierarchical social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories within a society.

Social inequality, unequal opportunities and rewards for different social position
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Capital in the Twenty First Century
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Capital and Ideology
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
A Brief History of Equality
Excellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczAcademically Adrift by Richard ArumFail U. by Charles J. SykesThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani GuinierThe Chosen by Jerome Karabel
Controversies in Higher Education
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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
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Jane Addams
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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