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SS - CHAPTER 9 GOVERNING INEQUALITIES Week 23 - Coggle Diagram
SS - CHAPTER 9
GOVERNING INEQUALITIES
Week 23
Societies more unequal
WHY IT MATTERS?
health & life expectancy
Divided world
Suffering
Social & political convulsion
PRIVATE LIFE
Family matters
Leisure
Love
Governed by state
Where boundaries private / public?
Late 19th century
Domestic violence = public matter
HOW PUBLIC ISSUES ARE GOVERNED?
WHO DOES POLITICS?
Governement
Social groups
Organisations
Institutions
Improvement
Authority
Most important
States
force
Political legimacy
Legal validity
Justifiability
Epxress consent (voting)
INEQUALITIES ARE NOT A PROBLEM
Natural
necessary
Maintain social order
free market
innovation
entreprenariat
hard-working
INEQUALITIES ARE A PROBLEM
Systemic
Affects everyone
Cost public money
illness
Breakdown social cohesion
harm public trust
lower employee motivation
Risk of rebellion
inequality creates disorder
GOVERNING INEQUALITIES
HAYEK
Austria
Market & Freedom
Apalled by totalitarism
Damage strong states
Freedom = absence of coercion
Constraint by people is worst than coerced by market laws
fear welfare state
Division of labour
Improvement society as a whole
State intervention to the minimum
Limitations of knowledge
Minimum safety net
STIGLIZ
THE DANGERS OF INEQUALITIES
Response to 2008 global recession
Also think free market benefit society
Some degree inequality inevitable
But extreme inequalities is negative
Information is shared unequally
Inequalities = results from political & economical forces
Politics act in the interest of the 1%
inequality reduces demand
society more divided