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The case for tearing up free-trade agreements and aborting negotiations for new ones is premised on the belief that globalization is the reason for rising income inequality, which has left the American working class economically marooned.
After 1980, global integration was accompanied by rising domestic inequality.
Rising inequality is redistributing income to those with a high propensity to save (the rich and corporations), and is exacerbated by capital-intensive, labor-saving technological innovation.
This combination of high debt and rising inequality may be the source of the secular stagnation that is making structural reforms more politically difficult to implement.
Mass education, progressive taxation, and social-welfare benefits have not prevented increasing inequality.
This would end its awkward impotence on – and apparent indifference to – inequality.
Today, the issue has returned to the forefront because of a new fight against racial discrimination, which appears to require more accurate measures of social inequality.
Rising inequality in either opportunity or outcomes (and often both) also poses threats to the sustainability of growth patterns.
When they are breached, the typical result is a sense of unfairness, followed by resistance and, ultimately, political choices that address the inequality, though sometimes in counter-productive, growth-impeding ways.
I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base: it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.
People also wondered how genetic technologies might affect social inequality and how countries would guard against the emergence of “corporate-type monopolies.”
Although the report nods in the direction of international cooperation, it breaches an international consensus in a way that increases the risks of irreversible genetic alterations and new forms of inequality.
Growth required inequality, it was said, because the rich would save more, and do a better job of investing.
Done mechanically, by ideology, they increase poverty and inequality, and stymie growth.
In order to address pressing global problems like climate change and inequality, the predominant economic models must be rethought, incorporating other motivational systems that can induce different human behaviors.
But even if Ahmadinejad’s overzealous attempt to deliver “the oil money to peoples’ dinner tables” added to inflationary pressures, it also seems to have reduced poverty and inequality significantly.
Inequality by the ClickLONDON – Pope Francis warned in November that “ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace” are driving rapid growth in inequality.
In one sense, Francis was clearly wrong: in many cases, inequality between countries is decreasing.
But such examples do not negate the importance of rising inequality within countries.
But the wages that the market will set for these jobs may result in yet greater inequality.
In his recent book Average is Over, the economist Tyler Cowen makes the deliberately provocative argument that while new technology will produce extreme inequality, the relative losers, satiated by computer games and Internet entertainment, and provided with the basics of a minimally acceptable life, will be too docile to revolt.
But extreme inequality should still concern us.
Beyond a certain point, unequal outcomes inevitably fuel greater inequality of opportunity; and extreme inequality of either outcomes or opportunity can undermine the idea that we should all be equal as citizens, if not in material standard of living.
This increase reflected a political desire to address the poverty and inequality that had gone unaddressed during previous decades.
That slogan echoes the title of an article that I recently published, entitled “Of the 1%, for the 1%, and by the 1%,” describing the enormous increase in inequality in the United States: 1% of the population controls more than 40% of the wealth and receives more than 20% of the income.
And those in this rarefied stratum often are rewarded so richly not because they have contributed more to society – bonuses and bailouts neatly gutted that justification for inequality – but because they are, to put it bluntly, successful (and sometimes corrupt) rent-seekers.
But, around the world, political influence and anti-competitive practices (often sustained through politics) have been central to the increase in economic inequality.
The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence.
Economies are teetering, ecosystems are under siege, and inequality – within and between countries – is soaring.
Inequality and exclusion of women, young people, and the poor undermines global growth and threatens to unravel the compact between society and its institutions.
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