how to analysis this sentence:
This hypothesis implies that the least favored tend to be more envious of the better situation of the more favored the less secure their self-respect and the greater their feeling that they cannot improve their prospects.
in Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
This hypothesis implies that the least favored tend to be more envious of the better situation of the more favored.
The less secure their self-respect and the greater their feeling that they cannot improve their prospects.
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Observe this board for evidence.
There seems to be grammar mistakes?
This is easy to understand, so what is the problem. Econ people finding it hard to read (albeit) bad prose?
@OP: think of this as interaction: envy goes up with feeling bad about self as well as feeling hopeless. Envy is with respect to people who have more.
op here: I don't understand the syntactics:
This hypothesis implies that the least favored tend to be more envious of
the better situation of the more favored, the less secure their self-respect, and the greater their feeling that they cannot improve their prospects.
ps. Do you think we can transform all social sciences with our economics tool boxes?
Let me put in econ terms:
The students outside of the top-7 schools will envy the top-7 students more if:
• They have no self-respect
• They believe they can't move up in the world (get good TT jobs, for instance)
Rawls's statement is perfectly reasonable, even if one disagrees with it. However, OP's post has serious spelling error, "analysis" should be "analyze." OP no good.