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  1. 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.

    • Harvardgazette
  2. 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
  3. Oct 5, 2016 · After all, wealth brings all sorts of advantages, like improved health, greater freedom and control over your life, nicer things, respect from your friends and peers. Yet new research suggests that wealth may also come with certain costs, and impact our social interactions in ways that we overlook. The empathy gap.

  4. May 8, 2019 · There are many reasons why some people succeed in becoming rich and others don't, but the specific combination of personality traits that both studies identified is certainly one of the reasons.

  5. Aug 15, 2024 · The key to progress, measured as a combination of wealth growth and falling or sustained inequality, has been political and institutional change that enabled citizens to become educated, better paid, and to amass wealth through housing and pension savings.

    • Daniel Waldenström
  6. Jun 3, 2014 · 1. 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.

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  8. 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.

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