Across time and geographical context, inequalities of income, status (gender, race, culture, religion) and capabilities have manifested themselves by means of different institutional arrangements that have governed human interactions. In an era of globalization, market mechanisms are generating new structures of inequalities both between as well as within countries and regions. Historians, political scientists, economists and legal theorists are all grappling with the issue of understanding, defining and evaluating the formation of inequalities and equalities. Grappling with this issue has acquired pressing urgency given the tensions experienced in forging social, economic, political and cultural interaction in a very pluralistic world.
This conference seeks to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to explore both historical and contemporary evocations of the different dimensions of inequalities. The hope is that a multidisciplinary examination can deepen the understanding of the phenomena and positively inform explorations of policy measures to fulfil the aspiration to a just world order.
Conference Papers
Giuseppe Bertola: Inequality, Globalization, and Financial Development
Andreas Bieler: Globalization, Neo-Liberal Restructuring and Inequality: The Response of European Labour
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Stefano Rosignoli and Luca Tiberti: Globalisation and Health: Impact Pathways and Recent Evidence
Margarita Estévez-Abe and Glyn Morgan: Social Justice and the Varieties of Welfare Capitalism Individuality, Sufficiency, and Institutional Flexibility
Don Kalb: Conversations with a Polish Populist: Globalization, Class, and “Transition”, Somewhat Closer on the Skin
Tamás Krausz: Perestroika and the Redistribution of Property in the Soviet Union: Political Perspectives and Historical Evidence
Ann Shola Orloff: Feminist Social Policy for a Post-maternalist Era: Gender Equality Projects in Europe and America
Heather R. Perry: Milit arizing the Disabled: “Total War” and the Economy of the Body in WWI Germany
Leandro Prados de la Escosura: International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the Western World
Pierre Purseigle: The Exile and Resettlement of Refugees from the Western Front, 1914-1918
Mathias Thoenig: Trade and War: How Globalization Changes the Regional Balance of Power
Jay Winter: Globalization and human rights: Undocumented immigrants, the Roman Catholic Church and the limits of tolerance
Conference Organizers
Umut Aydin , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Lars Boerner , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Eszter Bartha , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Arthur Dyevre , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Heather Jones , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Antonio Stopani , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlach , Max Weber Fellow 2007-2008