Of Tax, Crime, and Happiness. An Interdisciplinary Research Review on Social Inequality

Abstract

This article reviews research literature on inequality from economics, sociology and political science from a historiographic perspective. The literature covered here mainly focusses on the development of Western societies between 1970 and 2010 and is organised in terms of research concepts such as tax competition, educational attainment gaps, educational assortative mating, opportunity hoarding, happiness inequality, politics of resentment, welfare chauvinism and nature versus nurture.Der vorliegende Artikel bespricht Werke der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen, soziologischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Ungleichheitsforschung aus der Perspektive einer problemorientierten Zeitgeschichte anhand relevanter Forschungskonzepte. Berücksichtigt werden vor allem Aufsätze und Monografien zur Entwicklung westlicher Industriegesellschaften zwischen 1970 und 2010.