Three decades of economic growth have brought spectacular results to China, but have also increased economic in equality. Reactions to increased inequality in China, as elsewhere, have treated inequality as a patholog...Three decades of economic growth have brought spectacular results to China, but have also increased economic in equality. Reactions to increased inequality in China, as elsewhere, have treated inequality as a pathology when in fact it is more usual than equality, and possibly more functional in terms of social and individual development. The problem with inequality is not that it exists but that it may be poorly conceived, especially in public discourse, and consequently that it is inadequately managed. Inequality extends well beyond questions of income and wealth to the distribution of power, of gender and of generation. Healthy societies require more even wealth distribution but they also require a wider appreciation of different types of inequality.展开更多
文摘Three decades of economic growth have brought spectacular results to China, but have also increased economic in equality. Reactions to increased inequality in China, as elsewhere, have treated inequality as a pathology when in fact it is more usual than equality, and possibly more functional in terms of social and individual development. The problem with inequality is not that it exists but that it may be poorly conceived, especially in public discourse, and consequently that it is inadequately managed. Inequality extends well beyond questions of income and wealth to the distribution of power, of gender and of generation. Healthy societies require more even wealth distribution but they also require a wider appreciation of different types of inequality.
