How Fundamental Are Fundamental Inequalities? A Resource-Rational Perspective on Fundamental Inequalities and Interventions to Reduce Them

2025/04/03 by Maximilian Maier · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/1047840x.2025.2513821

openalex publication_date 2025/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

Sebben and Ullrich (this issue) outline a novel framework for studying social inequalities and social change, which advocates for a stronger focus on the resources on which inequalities unfold in a...

Citations

• Decision by sampling
• Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources
• Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from a survey experiment

Discussions

• @maxmaier.bsky.social approaches inequalities from a resource rational perspective and discusses under what circumstances social-identities might be particularly useful indicators of inequality: doi. [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

Related

• Contextualizing Identities with Fundamental Inequalities: Commentary on “Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change”
• Beyond Identity: A Framework for the Study of Social Inequalities and Social Change
• On the Structure of Social Inequalities
• Considering Fundamental Inequalities Offers a Path out of the Competitive Victimhood Trap
• Addressing Fundamental Inequalities Requires Starting Early