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Injustice: Why social inequality still persists
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Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? Leading social commentator and academic Danny Dorling claims in this timely book that, as the five social evils identified by Beveridge are gradually being eradicated, they are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice, viz: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. In an informal yet authoritative style, Dorling exa...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Policy Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Injustice: Why social inequality still persists, revised edition Journal website
- Pages:
- 484
- Host title:
- Injustice: Why social inequality still persists
- Publication date:
- 2015-06-03
- ISBN:
- 9781447320760
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- Copyright date:
- 2015
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