20111105 Follow Me 179—Oligarchy, American Style—paul krugman

    前段时间的华盛顿大游行导火索就是年青一代认为财富严重分配不均，我们经济学中研究产业集聚是一个热门之一，其实财富更甚，迅速集中在少数人手中。

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经济上的不平等带来政治上的不平等，或者反过来也成立。但是很显然政治这种东西注定是掌握在少数人手中的。所以纵观历史，大多变革都是由下自上的。

With plenty of money ,one can holds lots of resources,which in turn bring back much more monry;with no money ,one can do nothing but struggle for living which occupys most of his time and energy ,he just has nothing to grasp the opportunities--this is a Vicious Circle.For now ,the serious inequity is destorying the effciency , say, how can we do a good job without a place to live in.

It's obvious that the unfair distribution of income in China is worser than the U.S. at present. So I hope those domestic "pundits" can also do some research like this article and put forward feasible solving measures, rather than just rejoicing in the calamity of others.

When perceiving inequalities from a global perspective--such as noting the stratification orders between unions of "core," "semi-periphery," and "periphery" nation-states-- one comes to appreciate how any model of inequality that's worth its salt must address numerous systems of social arrangements which ultimately make people and groups "better off" relative to others. Not only must it identify the separate workings of each of these systems but also how each interacts with the others--how, for instance, Mideast gender orders are shaped by OPEC's power relative to that of Western and Asian cartels,  how the social standing of shamans in preindustrial societies are affected by satellite-beamed American television, or the ways core nations import the cognitive laborers or developing countries ("brain drains").

It's irrational for pundits who disguise their inequality to take advantage of the education level! As the surveyed by sociologists, boxman, De Graaf  and Flap, for example, had demostrated that income attenment have more relativeness with social capital rather than the human capital！ That is to say, incomes have little relationship to the education level. After all, billionaires who built up their business from scratch are quiet few! Inequality is inevitalble! Thus , pundits should take the phonomenon seriously. They should take more measures  to improve protesters' quality of life and balance the interest between wealthy and poor. Of course , it's a complex issue!

muhouxiaotian 发表于 2011-11-5 15:05
公平和效益，中国的是，效率优先，兼顾公平，让一部分人先富裕起来，结果先富的是先富了，结果人家跑到国外 ...

公平缺少激励，差距大缺少稳定
这句话精辟

Egalitarian pratice of "everybody eating from the same big pot"——>impaire the initiative of the laborer in production and work——>introduce competitive mechanism——>allow some people to get rich first——>capital accumulation——>develop financial market——>bubbles hurt economy——>widening gap between the rich and the poor——>discontent among the masses——>money flow out to ensure safety——>growing demands for equality

nice topic

很值得一读