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  1. Conference: The Sociology and Economics of Public Goods, Commodification and Rising Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

    …n laboratory settings, how different contribution, monitoring and sanction rules affect provision. Throughout, the interaction between inequality and public goods is a question of interest, but typically the causality of focus is from inequality to public goods, not from commodification to inequality. Sociologists have focused on documenting long‐run trends in the provision of public goods and the institutional forces that affect whether goods are…

  2. Call for Papers: The Sociology and Economics of Public Goods, Commodification and Rising Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

    …n laboratory settings, how different contribution, monitoring and sanction rules affect provision. Throughout, the interaction between inequality and public goods is a question of interest, but typically the causality of focus is from inequality to public goods, not from commodification to inequality. Sociologists have focused on documenting long‐run trends in the provision of public goods and the institutional forces that affect whether goods are…

  3. HDCA’s Health & Disability Thematic group’s Webinar on: “Recovery in Social Contexts: Applying the Capabilities Framework to Public Mental Health Research”

    …ologist whose research in the public mental health systems since 1980 has included research and policy collaborations with users of public sector mental health services aimed at understanding and breaking down system level barriers to services for people with mental illness with other complicating histories or conditions such as addiction and trauma histories….

  4. 2017 HDCA Conference – Cape Town, South Africa

    *THIS CONFERENCE HAS ENDED*

    HDCA 2017 Conference

    “Challenging Inequalities: Human Development and Social Change” 

    September 6-8, 2017

    Cape Town, South Africa

    Hosted by University of Cape Town

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    with University of the Free State, University of the Western Cape and the Human Sciences Research Council

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    The 2017 HDCA Program Committee cordially invites scholars, government policy makers, practitioners and other interested parties from all over the world to participate in the 2017 HDCA conference.  Original empirical research, theoretical issues, case-studies or reports of experiences, or findings from major research projects, and book panels relevant to conference theme or more broadly related to human development/capabilities approach will be presented.

     

  5. In Memoriam: Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia

    …opriately?), he and Richard Jolly co-authored and edited The Impact of the World Recession on Children, the first work to report on the significant deterioration in the conditions of children associated with the world recession. This was followed by the two volume study, Adjustment with a Human Face, which we co-authored. The volumes reported on the further deterioration in the circumstances of children throughout Africa and Latin America, associa…

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