Rethinking Inequality
Rethinking Inequality

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: Very large material inequalities prevail both within and among countries of the contemporary world. Exploitation and opportunity hoarding based on monopolized resources generate categorical inequality. Historically, resources underlying categorical inequality are in short supply, subject to sequestration, widely valued, and capable of producing further value in combination with other resources and/or coordinated effort. Predominant inequality-producing resources have shifted dramatically across history. In our own time, control over financial capital, information stores, media, and scientific-knowledge are becoming increasingly prominent in the generation of inequality. The future of inequality depends on how those four sorts of resources connect with concentrated coercion and social categories.

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