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This implies weak growth and widening inequality, a combination that could further undermine education and skill levels.
Without productivity growth, the incomes of those at the lower end of the distribution will likely remain flat, exacerbating inequality and, as we have been seeing lately, jeopardizing social and political stability.
Given this, governments should devote resources to reducing inequality, regardless of the shifting preferences of the average citizen.
This rising dependency ratio is made worse by widening economic inequality; as more wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, the promise of ever-improving standards of living for most people may not be fulfilled.
What we need are universal sustainable development goals on issues such as energy, food security, sanitation, urban planning, and poverty eradication, while reducing inequality within the planet’s limits.
Gender inequality is also costly on a macro level.
And yet, despite widespread concern and anxiety about poverty, unemployment, inequality, and extreme concentration of incomes and wealth, no alternative growth model has emerged.
But the experiment failed when Egypt’s leaders detached themselves from the realities of their constituency – poverty, illiteracy, and widespread anger at yawning inequality and top-down westernization.
This reflected deeper problems of domestic inequality created by nineteenth-century economic progress.
A rising power, beset with internal inequality, turns to nationalism and challenges the dominant power, provoking a war that turns back the progress of economic globalization.
Another reason poverty endures is persistent – and, in many places, widening – inequality.
The current level of global inequality is unconscionable.
To be sure, there will always be a certain amount of inequality in the world; in fact, as with unemployment, a limited amount is desirable as a driver of competition and growth.
But the deep and pervasive inequality that exists today can only be condemned.
As 2015 begins, we must consider policies and interventions to curb such extreme inequality.
Extreme inequality is, ultimately, an assault on democracy.
These will have to be financed, at least in part, by the imposition of environmental taxes, including carbon taxes, and taxes on the monopoly and other rents that have become pervasive in the market economy – and contribute enormously to inequality and slow growth.
A Brief History of (In)equalityBERKELEY – The Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen recently gave a talk in Lisbon about inequality that demonstrated one of the virtues of being a scholar of economic history.
For his part, with respect to inequality, Eichengreen has identified six first-order processes at work over the past 250 years.
This mostly coincided with the Gilded Age between 1870 and 1914, when domestic inequality rose in the global north as entrepreneurship, industrialization, and financial manipulation channeled new gains mostly to the wealthiest families.
Gilded Age inequality was significantly reversed during the period of social democracy in the global north, between 1930 and 1980, when higher taxes on the wealthy helped pay for new government benefits and programs.
Eichengreen’s six processes affecting inequality are a good starting point.
Seen in this light, inequality is an uneven distribution not only of wealth, but also of liberty.
Emphasizing complexity brings me to a final factor affecting inequality – perhaps the most important of all: populist mobilizations.
Democracies are prone to populist uprisings, especially when inequality is on the rise.
Constructive populist responses to inequality are fewer, but they should certainly be mentioned.
History teaches us that these latter responses to inequality have made the world a better place.
In the face of growing inequality, they saw the gap between rich and poor as just a side effect, and possibly even a spur for innovation, aspiration, and creativity for those lower down the ladder.
As Schrecker and Bambra and many others have shown, income inequality has profoundly damaging and far-reaching effects on everything from trust and social cohesion to rates of violent crime and imprisonment, educational achievement, and social mobility.
Inequality seems to worsen health outcomes, reduce life expectancy, boost rates of mental illness and obesity, and even increase the prevalence of HIV.
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