Is Economics Promoting Inequality?
Kaushik Basu highlights the profession's role in the widening of wealth and income gaps around the world.
Mainstream economics has often underestimated the critical role of trust and cooperation in enabling prosperity.
As a result, it has justified and even encouraged the greed, exploitation, and extreme inequality that are eroding political accountability, contributing to rising nationalism, and undermining human well-being.
These are harrowing times, with political leaders cutting programs and services that benefit the poor, while stoking fear and anger against migrants and refugees.
Their intentions, though noble-sounding, are often a cover for a policy agenda designed to enrich themselves and their wealthy allies.
Author's summary: Economics may be exacerbating inequality.
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