“Elites” (and “elite overproduction”) are key concepts in the structural-demographic theory (SDT). In this blog post I’d like to explain the meaning of this term. This is especially important because the popular usage (see Liberal Elite) has very little in common with the sociological

My previous post was criticized in the comments on the grounds that I “confuse inequality with unfairness.” That’s actually not the case, and in the book I talk about different aspects of inequality (something I did not have a chance to develop in an 800-word blog post). But the point

Economics lately, since the ‘Great Recession’, has been getting a lot of beating. So it’s not unusual nowadays to see titles such as “Is Economics Dead?” or “The Death of Economics.” I am not one to join in this Economics-bashing. Yes, there are lots of problems – much sterile mathema