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- One possible explanation, scientists say, may lie in what’s known as Social Dominance Theory, the idea that human societies are organized in group-based social hierarchies in which some enjoy greater access to resources and opportunities than others.
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Feb 8, 2016 · Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Mar 6, 2024 · The effects of excessive wealth can be seen throughout US society—in the high rents resulting from private equity acquisition of housing, in tax structures, and in billionaire domination of our political system. If we are serious about narrowing the racial wealth gap, this silence needs to change.
Feb 1, 2022 · Societal influences include macroeconomic circumstances, cultural narratives, structural prejudices, and salient consumption behaviors by the rich and the poor. I discuss how these influences shape (and distort) attributions of economic outcomes and lay beliefs about wealth and poverty.
- Shai Davidai
- 2022
- Economic inequality can give wealthier people an unacceptable degree of control over the lives of others. If wealth is very unevenly distributed in a society, wealthy people often end up in control of many aspects of the lives of poorer citizens: over where and how they can work, what they can buy, and in general what their lives will be like.
- Economic inequality can undermine the fairness of political institutions. If those who hold political offices must depend on large contributions for their campaigns, they will be more responsive to the interests and demands of wealthy contributors, and those who are not rich will not be fairly represented.
- Economic inequality undermines the fairness of the economic system itself. Economic inequality makes it difficult, if not impossible, to create equality of opportunity.
- Workers, as participants in a scheme of cooperation that produces national income, have a claim to a fair share of what they have helped to produce.
Nov 1, 2022 · Why inequality matters. The rich tend to spend less of their money than the poor. As a result, the extreme concentration of wealth can slow the pace of economic growth.
- Fatema Z. Sumar
Jun 24, 2022 · Why are some nations rich and others poor? Can the governments of poor nations do something to ensure that their nations become rich?
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Dec 3, 2013 · This article presents a more detailed picture of what wealth inequality in Britain looks like and how it relates to people’s age, housing tenure, and occupational social class, using results from the ONS’s Wealth and Asset Survey for 2008-2010.
