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Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalising (on) industrial epidemics: examining the influence of the 'Big Three' asset managers on corporate governance in key health-harming commodity industries. [PDF]

Global Health
Wood B, Slater S, Friel S, Schram A, Frank N, Sacks G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
wiley   +1 more source

Health financing policies for aging populations: a comparative study of seven countries. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Nayebi BA, Yaghoubi R, Najafi B, Khodayari-Zarnaq R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Efficiency of Private Pension Funds in Poland

AESTIMATIO, 2015
Krzysztof Kompa, Dorota Witkowska
openaire   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social health insurance and professional ethics in Romania: between legal framework and medical integrity. [PDF]

Front Health Serv
Mirică RE, Soare I.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Justification trajectories for pension inequality in Chile (2016-2023): the role of social class and beliefs in meritocracy. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Castillo JC, Canales-Sellés R, Laffert A, Urzúa T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
wiley   +1 more source