Tag: Teaching
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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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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…
SAFAVI, M 