The present study found evidence that area cesarean section rates may be driven by population and market characteristics such as educational attainment, area inequality, hospital competition, hospital capacity, and physician supply.
She likes what macho, sexist, patriarchal men have always liked: war, the defence of the status quo, established power, entrenched inequality, heavily rigged individualist competition and absolute freedom.
The dominance of free-market ideology before the crisis allowed many controversial social changes, ranging from income inequality and intensified wage competition to greater gender equality and affirmative action, to go almost unchallenged.
The worry is that the continued dominance of national championships by a few clubs will drive away supporters.In the United States the baseball, basketball, hockey and American football leagues try to mitigate the effects of competition and inequality through revenue- and talent-sharing agreements, such as "the draft" (baseball even has a specific exemption from antitrust law).
However, high levels of competition and inequality can be detrimental to the overall functioning of the science system [4] [8], for example by affecting scientists' decision processes and sentiments of ethical responsibility [3], [9] [14], and by altering the entry rate, the exit rate, and the overall appeal of careers in science [2], [15] [18].
Therefore, our results suggest that parents invest differentially in their offspring in order to both preferentially favour particular offspring or reduce offspring inequalities arising from sibling competition.
Slow economic growth and serious disruptions in any number of industries, from media to architecture to advertising, along with increasing income inequality, have created ever more competition for interesting, well-paid jobs.
He said: "No one can ignore the harshness of that competition, or the inequality that it inevitably accentuates, and I am afraid that violent economic centrifuge is operating on human beings who are already very far from equal in raw ability, if not spiritual worth".
If you put a person in an environment that worships wealth and favors conspicuous consumption, add gross income inequalities that breed envy and competition, mix in stagnant wages, a high cost of living and too-easy credit, you get overspending, high personal debt and a "treadmill-like existence," as Whybrow calls it: compulsive getting and spending.
