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Shatter belts
Modern geopolitics views geography as a set of opportunities and limitations that affect the decision-makers range of options rather than as an unchangeable destiny. This geographical factor, together with the political options chosen, can lead to very different outcomes from region to region. For instance, Cohen (1991) distinguished between “gateways” and “shatter belts.” Gateways are regions…
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Narrative Stories
Economics (and, by extension, finance) has focused too much on quantitative methods and forgotten something important in the process: We humans have evolved to be storytellers. The stories we tell each other bind us together as families, communities, nations, and religions. These narratives define what it means to be a mother, a German, or a…
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Inequality Measurement
An inequality measure is often a function that ascribes a value to a specific distribution of income in a way that allows direct and objective comparisons across different distributions. To do this, inequality measures should have specific properties and behave in a certain way given certain events. For example, moving $1 from a richer person…
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Social Class and Health Inequality
What would happen if people were in the same social class? Using General Social Survey data (Canadian at work and home) 2016, I conducted a study to find the answer to this question. Is there any link between social class and health inequality? It is better to take a look at some variables before proceeding.…
SAFAVI, M 