This concluding chapter begins by outlining policies which would promote greater economic equality. Taxation of income and wealth could be fairer, more progressive, and tax avoidance could be better controlled. Universal basic income, universal basic capital, and community wealth building are amongst ideas for sharing wealth more widely. The financial and business sector, the workplace, and education are examples of key sectors that could be reformed. The prediction is that the more such policies were implemented, the healthier and happier we would be on a personal level, and the more cohesive and productive our country would be. A principal conclusion of the present book is that there are six basic reasons to explain the present failure to see economic inequality for what it is—gross in size and highly damaging in its effects. We are confused by a combination of obfuscation, diversion, division, justificatory beliefs, dominant economic theory, and powerful vested interests. Impassioned calls for a fairer, more economically equal society continue to come from writers in the UK and US, in agreement that hope lies in the mobilisation of public opinion, as a basis for persuading governments to focus on economic inequality and to adopt policies to correct it.

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Towards a Fairer Society: Standing Up to Economic Inequality

  • Jim Orford

摘要

This concluding chapter begins by outlining policies which would promote greater economic equality. Taxation of income and wealth could be fairer, more progressive, and tax avoidance could be better controlled. Universal basic income, universal basic capital, and community wealth building are amongst ideas for sharing wealth more widely. The financial and business sector, the workplace, and education are examples of key sectors that could be reformed. The prediction is that the more such policies were implemented, the healthier and happier we would be on a personal level, and the more cohesive and productive our country would be. A principal conclusion of the present book is that there are six basic reasons to explain the present failure to see economic inequality for what it is—gross in size and highly damaging in its effects. We are confused by a combination of obfuscation, diversion, division, justificatory beliefs, dominant economic theory, and powerful vested interests. Impassioned calls for a fairer, more economically equal society continue to come from writers in the UK and US, in agreement that hope lies in the mobilisation of public opinion, as a basis for persuading governments to focus on economic inequality and to adopt policies to correct it.