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research is more like a lower bound on interest in intersectional inequalities while phil is looking at something like an upper bound articles that go so far as to include those terms in their title also here i am looking only at those articles that mention inequality of some sort to see which kinds of inequality are mentioned inequality articles for short given that we can see two clear trends inequality articles are much more likely to mention both race and sex gender in recent years doubling from around 17 in 1980 to around 34 in 2012 in the meantime discussion of race and gender in general have also increased significantly from 33 of inequality articles mentioning sex or gender in 1980 to 59 in 2012 and 29 to 45 for race with this data we can also compare the observed co occurrence of race and sex gender to the rate we d expect if mentions were independent that is given that 33 of inequality articles mentioned race and 29 mentioned in sex gender in 1980 we d expect about 9 to mention both simply by chance the actual rate is 17 for 2012 the expected rate based on independence is about 27 compared to an observed rate of 34 so the overall increase in articles mentioning race and sex gender is pretty consistent with the increase in mentions of the two terms separately what do you all think edit inspired by philip s comment i made another simple chart looking at research articles in jstor here i look at the percentage of article that use both the terms racial inequality and gender inequality as a percentage of articles using either term here s a plot of a 2 year moving average of those results jstor research articles mentioning racial inequality and gender inequaliy as a percentage of articles mentioning either 1990 2012 i restricted the time period here to 1990 2012 1989 2012 considering the 2 year average because of sharp uptick in gender as a term in the 1980s and the relatively small n of any mentions of gender inequality from the 1980s i e just 2 articles in 1980 mostly not a lot of trend here are these the right terms though jstor s database excludes many publications for a couple years after publication so the sample size drops considerably for the last two years specifically any of the phrases social inequality economic inequality wealth inequality or income inequality in the early part of the 1980s gender was still much less commonly used than sex cf ngrams i use sex gender to refer to articles containing at least one of sex or gender by dan hirschman on october 14 2014 permalink posted in sociology posted by dan hirschman on october 14 2014 https asociologist com 2014 10 14 mentions of race gender and inequality in academic articles funk and hirschman 2014 derivatives and deregulation i am very pleased to announce that administrative science quarterly has just posted the online version of my forthcoming article with russ funk derivatives and deregulation financial innovation and the demise of glass steagall here s the abstract regulators much like market actors rely on categorical distinctions innovations that are ambiguous to regulatory categories but not to market actors present a problem for regulators and an opportunity for innovative firms using a wide range of primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative sources we trace the history of one class of innovative financial derivatives interest rate and foreign exchange swaps to show how these instruments undermined the separation of commercial and investment banking established by the glass steagall act of 1933 even as overt political action failed to do so swaps did not fit neatly into existing product categories futures securities loans and thus evaded regulatory scrutiny for many years the market success of swaps put commercial and investment banks into direct competition and in so doing undermined glass steagall drawing on this case we theorize that ambiguous innovations may disrupt the regulatory status quo and shift the political burden onto parties that want to maintain existing regulations our findings also suggest that category spanning innovations may be more valuable to market participants if regulators find them difficult to interpret many readers of this blog gave us helpful advice over the past four years thank you all very much and let us know what you think of the paper by dan hirschman on october 7 2014 permalink posted in uncategorized posted by dan hirschman on october 7 2014 https asociologist com 2014 10 07 funk and hirschman 2014 derivatives and deregulation coasian comparison josh barro wrote a somewhat controversial op ed in the nyt attempting to apply the coase theorem to the negotiation between passengers on a plane about whether or not to recline their seats economist greg mankiw and political theorist jim johnson each posted a short reaction to the paper see if you can spot the difference in tone first here s mankiw and here s johnson i wonder what steve medema would say by dan hirschman on august 28 2014 permalink posted in economics posted by dan hirschman on august 28 2014 https asociologist com 2014 08 28 coasian comparison statistical optimism mortgage finance and depressions retro edition let s coin a new phrase statistical optimism statistical optimism refers to the belief that if only we had better statistics about x and that everyone was made aware of those statistics then we would make better decisions about x and some set of problems would go away without any major changes in the institutions actually making decisions it s a practical quanty version of the classic enlightenment style idea that more knowledge always makes things better note that by statistics here i mean the production and distribution of quantitative data the old sense of statistics vital statistics censuses national income statistics etc and not the inferential field we know and love today this phrase came to mind today as i was reading through a march 1932 interview with senator la follette about the need for better economic statistics to improve economic planning in the midst of the depression the interview is chock full of great quotes that give you a flavor of what it was like to live in a time before the cps nipa and all the other routine standardized official data we take for granted for example it is a sad commentary on our statistical information that in the third winter of the depression we have absolutely no authoritative official figures on unemployment the only data we have are those collected by the census in 1930 for the country as a whole and for certain cities in january 1931 the authoritative bit here was to be important too as fdr and hoover fought in the 1932 campaign over whose partial non standardized unemployment figures were better the belief that gets me though and that seems to be widely shared across the political spectrum at this point is that just having good data will fix all kinds of ideological disputes it was this belief in part that motivated the founding of the nber and it was this belief that animated hoover to work to produce all kinds of economic reports in the 1920s and early 1930s in concert with economists and businessmen e g recent economic trends recent social trends etc la follette was a republican also but later founded the wisconsin progressive party and clearly believed in less business led solutions to economic problems than hoover but he had the same attitude of statistical optimism a quote from the end of the interview about the potential for authoritative statistics to prevent future depressions struck me as especially relevant and from a post 2008 perspective ironic suppose late in 1928 some authoritative body in washington had publicly emphasized the fact that there was an excess of private houses on the market suppose it had pointed out that construction figures showed an appreciable falling off in the building of new houses surely in the light of such warnings people would not have continued investing their hard earned savings in first and second mortgage real estate bonds thus increasing the supply of new capital for speculative building which continued into 1929 if only it were so though i suppose in fairness to la follette what he called for was not simply the creation of better data but also the creation of an institution a national economic council somewhat of a precursor to what ended up being the council of economic advisers that would have the authority to interpret data not just collect it still the optimism is palpable and from our vantage point tragic la follette is important in my work because he introduced a resolution in 1932 which called for the creation of the first official us national income estimates well he thought they were the first and so do most people the ftc actually produced an estimate in 1926 but almost no one knows about it and no one did much with it then either by dan hirschman on july 30 2014 permalink posted in economics politics statistics posted by dan hirschman on july 30 2014 https asociologist com 2014 07 30 statistical optimism mortgage finance and depressions retro edition rsvp for the junior theorists symposium the 2014 junior theorists symposium is just three weeks away below please find an updated schedule jts 2014 will be held at the university of california berkeley in 60 evans hall a complete list of paper abstracts is available here pdf link if you have any questions please contact jordanna matlon and myself at juniortheorists gmail com junior theorists symposium university of california berkeley 60 evans hall august 15 2014 8 30 9 00 coffee and bagels 9 00 10 50 culture action and difference michael halpin university of wisconsin madison science and sociodicy neuroscientific explanations of social problems ellis monk university of chicago bodily capital capturing the role of the body in social inequality daniel sherwood the new school acting through the margin of freedom bourdieu as a social movement theorist discussant omar lizardo university of notre dame 10 50 11 00 coffee 11 00 12 50 measures of worth alison gerber yale university tradition rationalization and worth a theory of decommensuration katherine kenny university of california san diego the biopolitics of global health life and death and neoliberal time brandon vaidyanathan rice university a cultural theory of differentiation discussant marion fourcade university of california berkeley 12 50 2 00 lunch 2 00 3 50 place and perspective hillary angelo new york university from the city as a lens to urbanization as a way of seeing refocusing social categories for an urban planet jennifer carlson university of toronto citizen protectors guns masculinity and citizenship in an age of decline victoria reyes princeton university global borderlands a case study of the subic bay freeport zone philippines discussant saskia sassen columbia university 4 00 5 30 after panel the boundaries of theory stefan bargheer university of california los angeles claudio benzecry university of connecticut margaret frye harvard university julian go boston university rhacel parreñas university of southern california 5 30 theory in the wild beer wine and good conversation off site the junior theorists symposium is an open event in order to facilitate planning please rsvp by sending an email to juniortheorists gmail com with the subject line jts rsvp we suggest an on site donation of 20 per faculty member and 10 per graduate student to cover event costs by dan hirschman on july 25 2014 permalink posted in uncategorized posted by dan hirschman on july 25 2014 https asociologist com 2014 07 25 rsvp for the junior theorists symposium if you re going to san francisco dear readers first a bit of housekeeping i ve been officially recruited onto the scatterplot blogging team so for the time being substantive posts about sociology and related topics will likely be posted over there e g this piece on clarifying the debate over replication in the social sciences i ll save this blog for more personal updates and shameless self promotion speaking of which i m very excited for this year s asa in sf if you want to hear what i m up to or say hi you can find me at two fantastic events the first is the junior theorists symposium which i m co organizing with jordanna matlon we ll be posting the paper abstracts and further details next week and i ll make sure to link them here please rsvp if you d like to attend jts will be held at the university of california berkeley on friday august 15 the day before asa proper begins in earnest old announcement with details here the second is a panel on credit and inequality interdisciplinary perspectives greta krippner and i will be presenting our first paper from a new collaboration on the politics of pricing in insurance and credit this paper looks at the fascinating legal and legislative contention in the 1980s over the use of gender in risk based pricing of life and auto insurance the panel is sunday 2 30 4 10pm hope to see you all there ok i admit few people would normally use fascinating to describe any aspect of insurance pricing but believe me it s a really rich space to see the workings out of various logics of fairness discrimination and the meaning of individual treatment in the context of statistical models of risk questions that rate to be ever more relevant as more and more aspects of our lives are connected to predictive algorithms by dan hirschman on july 20 2014 permalink posted in meta shameless self promotion posted by dan hirschman on july 20 2014 https asociologist com 2014 07 20 if youre going to san francisco older posts recent posts death cult demands more death pumpkin breadsmith challah economics before human capital one year ago today cersei lannister sent the greatest memo of all time mentions of race gender and inequality in academic articles recent comments andres on economics before human capital dan hirschman on mentions of race gender and inequality in 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