Top economists call for action on runaway global inequality
https://lemmy.world/post/1659522
Top economists call for action on runaway global inequality - Lemmy.world
The letter says: “We know that high inequality undermines all our social and
environmental goals. It corrodes our politics, destroys trust, hamstrings our
collective economic prosperity and weakens multilateralism. We also know that
without a sharp reduction in inequality, the twin goals of ending poverty and
preventing climate breakdown will be in clear conflict.”
Caveat Emptor: I have not read the article. I am immediately suspicious of most economists because, at least in the US, they have a decidedly conservative bias. Generally US-based economists side with the concerns of the wealthy and promote policies friendly to them which are often at the expense of the poor and working classes.
Bingo. Pretty much any non-Marxist economists will favor “the market” over workers. Neoliberalism, the predominant ideology in most western countries, is seen as an alternative to conservatism (very much so in the US), but they’re centrists at best, and conservative-lite at worst.
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