This talk by Fabian Pfeffer is the 8th session of the 2022-2023 DIGCLASS seminar series.
The speaker will present striking descriptive facts that together emphasize the urgency of increased scientific and political attention to wealth and will end with a provocative proposal for direct political intervention towards the redistribution of wealth.
Live webstreaming will be available from this page next Tuesday, May 30th, from 15.00h.
- social inequality | distribution of income | redistribution of income | tax on income | socially disadvantaged class
- Tuesday 30 May 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 (CEST)
- Online only
- Live streaming available
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- When
- Tuesday 30 May 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 (CEST)
- Where
- Online only
- Languages
- English
- Organisers
- Joint Research Centre
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Description
Wealth is an important and unique dimension of social inequality and social mobility. This talk presents three basic but nonetheless striking descriptive facts that together emphasize the urgency of increased scientific and political attention to wealth: First, wealth is different from other, more widely used indicators of economic well-being and inequality. Second, wealth is drastically more unequally distributed that any other economic resource. And, third, wealth inequality is transmitted across generations and reproduces other social divides. The talk ends with a provocative proposal for direct political intervention towards the redistribution of wealth.
Speaker
Fabian T. Pfeffer is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He directs the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID). His research investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. Current projects focus on wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, social mobility across multiple generations, the maintenance of inequality through education, and the effects of experiencing social mobility.
DIGCLASS Seminar Series
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