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Many of those engaged in the debate on inequality nowadays cite the French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which makes three key points.
Third, this rising inequality must be reversed through confiscatory taxation before it destroys society.
What impact do lower interest rates have on measured inequality?
If I own one house and my neighbor owns two, and falling interest rates cause the value of those houses to double, the monetary inequality between us also doubles, affecting a variety of statistical indicators and triggering much well-intended concern.
The real-world impact of this dynamic on inequality is precisely the opposite of what Piketty would expect.
Clearly, economic inequality is a highly complex phenomenon, affected by a wide variety of factors – many of which we do not fully understand, much less control.
By contrast, when it comes to financial deregulation and the liberalization of international capital flows, there are clear equity-efficiency tradeoffs: they boost growth, but they also tend to increase inequality.
The decision to place inequality at the center of the discussion at Davos this year was a promising development.
Bachelet has also vowed to reform the tax system to reduce inequality, strengthen the state’s role in the pension system, and improve the quality and coverage of the health-care system.
In recent years, social movements have demanded that the state play a stronger role in redistribution, and Bachelet’s mandate will be to reduce inequality.
Inequality may be on the rise within countries, but it has dropped dramatically among them.
Third, it highlights three correlated goals: easing external pressure for domestic policy changes, building social inclusiveness through a basic social-security scheme, and reducing inefficiency, inequality, and corruption through major rural land reform.
They have only limited land, and if one assumes ever-increasing GDP and rising income inequality, there will always be more and more wealthy people to bid up prices in these scarce areas.
While it can be criticized for its failure to develop a specific agenda for action, it galvanized attention to income and wealth inequality in the US and around the world.
Lost in the angst over inequality is the critical role that central banks have played in exacerbating the problem.
Who will address inequality and divergent social interests?
Socioeconomic inequality will increase.
By placing purchasing power in the hands of those who need it most, direct monetary financing of public spending would also help to improve inclusiveness in economies where inequality is rising fast.
Twenty-five years ago, China had a more egalitarian society than Sweden; today there is vast inequality between city and countryside, between the western provinces and those bordering the Pacific ocean, and within cities, which attract a constant flow of former peasants looking for jobs.
But more inequality also means more opportunities: becoming rich today in China remains very difficult, but it is no longer impossible - just walk into one of the pubs of downtown Shanghai.
Inequality can be accepted, but not if it is the fruit of corruption, and this remains China's foremost social problem, which the Party has been unable to eradicate, despite Caijng 's exposés and the death penalty.
India's economy is growing almost as fast as China's, with a similar increase in inequality and, to some extent, corruption.
The point is that questions such as, "Are we creating too much inequality?"
Their complaint: the course propagates conservative ideology in the guise of economic science and helps perpetuate social inequality.
There has been a lot of finger pointing, with commentators blaming issues like gerrymandering, rising economic inequality, the campaign finance system, and unbalanced journalism.
Income inequality is on the rise, with the top 1% holding a vastly disproportionate amount of wealth, while middle- and lower-class incomes remain largely stagnant.
But there is a way for the public to address both inequality and campaign finance: vote.
Creating a rule of law and institutions for political participation has lagged behind economic growth, and growing inequality, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, and corruption could foster political instability.
Growing inequality would not be such a problem if governments could simply raise taxes on the rich and strengthen subsidies to the poor.
Like recent reports about many Americans’ deteriorating health, this difference in life expectancy seems to reflect not just income and wealth inequality, but also unequal access to health care.
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