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[https://news.uchicago.edu/story/economic-inequality-leads-democratic-erosion-study-finds by Sarah Steimer 17/1/25 Uchicago] | [https://news.uchicago.edu/story/economic-inequality-leads-democratic-erosion-study-finds by Sarah Steimer 17/1/25 Uchicago] | ||
Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind the erosion of democratic norms and institutions: economic inequality. | Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind the erosion of democratic norms and institutions: economic inequality. | ||
=====How political ideas keep economic inequality going===== | |||
[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/pikettys-new-book-explores-how-economic-inequality-is-perpetuated/ by Christina Pazzanese 3/3/20 The Harvard Gazette] | |||
As the gulf between the haves and the have nots continues to widen, the roiling debate over economic inequality has become a political prime mover in the U.S. and across Europe. French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 landmark analysis of Western economic inequality, “Capital in the 21st Century,” became a must-read in both popular and academic circles. Now, he’s back with “Capital and Ideology” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020), a global look at the history of the problem, how institutions and ideologies reinforce it, and how it can be remedied. | |||
