Class
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It seems easier for white middle
class
Americans to consider the poor less worthy of government support if they think of them as different.
But this could ratchet up pressure on non-sanctioned Russian elites to prove their loyalty to Putin, possibly even triggering a purge of the more pro-Western elements in Russia’s political
class.
Furthermore, developing economies are now contributing to a burgeoning global middle class, whose numbers have more than doubled, from around one billion people in 1985 to 2.3 billion in 2015.
Inequality would widen, with great wealth for the few and low wages for the many, followed by a traumatic bust – in which the wealthy again do fine, the middle
class
is ground down to poverty, and the social safety net is ripped to shreds.
These strains in the US-Japan relationship – surely the foundation stone of Asian stability – first became noticeable in December, when Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which houses the “souls” of (among others)
Class
A war criminals from the Pacific War.
While hard to imagine at the moment, its revival will require a combination of foresight, self-awareness, humility, and the courage to confront seemingly insurmountable
class
and racial divisions, and even rifts within families.
From 1998 to 2008, the middle
class
in advanced economies experienced no income growth, while incomes soared by nearly 70% for those at the top of the global income distribution.
Iran’s merchant class, one of the pillars of the clerical establishment that has ruled the country since the 1979 revolution, is grumbling as well.
Noah Kabbakeh, one of my vision-impaired colleagues in Freetown, Sierra Leone, needed four years to complete a two-year master’s program in the social sciences, not because he is unable to grasp the material quickly enough, but because he had to earn money to hire someone to read aloud textbooks and other
class
materials that any seeing graduate student could have obtained from the university library.
For example, ten years of studies of the possible health effects of a
class
of carbon-based nanomaterials known as fullerenes report that the soccer-ball-shaped fullerene molecules known as “buckyballs,” are powerful antioxidants, comparable in strength to vitamin E. Other studies report that some types of buckyballs can be toxic to tumor cells.
And, finally, politicians generally defend their policies in terms of how they affect the middle
class
or the poor, not the arithmetic average of incomes across an economy – which gives equal weight to a $1 increase in the income of a poor person and that of a billionaire.
Moreover, to reduce income inequality and enhance social mobility, Singapore’s government has increased benefits for the socioeconomically disadvantaged and the middle class, including by investing in education and making health care more affordable.
But Germany’s political class, like its ordinary Michels, are in denial.
Many in the US political
class
remain convinced – at least in public – that US foreign policy under Trump will be reined in by the more level-headed heavyweights in his cabinet, such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The conservative fiscal response to the post-2008 recession, combined with the European Central Bank’s dithering before July 2012, led to excessive austerity, which wreaked havoc on the Italian middle class, pushing it toward populism.
Second, most of the economic gains in the US in recent years have gone to the rich, while the middle
class
has fallen behind in relative terms.
The demise of military dictatorships and the spread of democratic regimes throughout Latin America (except for Cuba) means that even severe economic, class, ethnic, and other tensions now more often manifest themselves politically, in struggles for votes and influence.
Abe, too, has stoked tensions, particularly by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine – a controversial memorial that honors, among others,
Class
A war criminals from World War II.
Of course, Europe’s political
class
doesn’t like suggestions like this, because they entail surrendering some degree of national sovereignty.
Our talent pool isn’t really a billion, some argue; it’s only the well off and middle class, maybe 300 million strong, who can afford to play sports.
This drove up interest rates for emerging-market debt as an asset
class
.
The significant changes since independence in the social composition of India’s ruling class, both in politics and in the bureaucracy – with leaders from the formerly “untouchable” and backward castes elected to high office – have vindicated democracy in practice.
But, in Pakistan, delegitimation of military rule had actually occurred three years earlier, and the pressure for change came from much the same source – a restive and mobilized new middle
class.
China needs to avoid the pattern by which past neglect of the service sector creates a
class
of incumbents who use political means to maintain their position.
This should be a good thing, as it could enable Europe's leaders to understand at last that what is at stake in Greece is the fate of a people, not the survival of a failed political
class.
Besides class, at least three other narrative structures are politically salient in Latin America.
The same surveys indicate that younger people, the highly educated, and those who identify themselves as upper class, are more likely to associate themselves with the world.
Europe is blocking access to a
class
of goods – one that is vital to people’s survival – that can be imported much more cheaply than it can be produced at home.
With government policy remaining on course, we should expect a gradual strengthening of endogenous domestic growth drivers in emerging economies, anchored by an expanding middle
class.
A major factor, however, was implicit
class
warfare.
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