Episode 16: Keeping up with the Khans -- with Eve Colson-Sihra
InequaliTalks
English - July 21, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 20.7 MBSocial Sciences Science Education Courses economics inequality research Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Does inequality affect our perception of necessity and luxury? Does it change our preferences for certain goods? And if yes, what are the impact in terms of malnutruition? Eve Colson-Sihra talks about the research she conducted with Clément Bellet on the impact of exposure to inequality on the perceived needs of the poor in India.
Paper:
"Does Inequality Affect the Perception of Needs?" by Clément Bellet and Eve Colson-Sihra
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XfOvB3_k2IZHt1NowTFcKFwe4meqb6gg/view
Recommendations:
- "The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures" by Jean Baudrillard
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37328.TheConsumerSociety
- "The Theory of the Leisure Class" by Thorstein Veblen
https://www.routledge.com/The-Theory-of-the-Leisure-Class/Veblen/p/book/9781560005629
Does inequality affect our perception of necessity and luxury? Does it change our preferences for certain goods? And if yes, what are the impact in terms of malnutruition? Eve Colson-Sihra talks about the research she conducted with Clément Bellet on the impact of exposure to inequality on the perceived needs of the poor in India.
Paper:
"Does Inequality Affect the Perception of Needs?" by Clément Bellet and Eve Colson-Sihra
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XfOvB3_k2IZHt1NowTFcKFwe4meqb6gg/view
Recommendations:
"The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures" by Jean Baudrillard
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37328.The_Consumer_Society
"The Theory of the Leisure Class" by Thorstein Veblen
https://www.routledge.com/The-Theory-of-the-Leisure-Class/Veblen/p/book/9781560005629