Projektnummer

0072314

Zusammenfassung

This project investigates whether the increasing gap between the wealthy elite and the general population undermines social cohesion. If the lifestyles, networks, opportunities, and world views of the wealthiest members of a given society and others diverge, the latter may start questioning their belief in equal opportunity, trust in government, or civic engagement more broadly. That is, high and increasing relative wealth inequality may pose a direct challenge to social cohesion. In this project, we seek to develop novel measures of relative wealth that capture how far the very rich h...