«UNCOMFORTABLY OFF. Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality.»was the book that was presented a few days ago in an activity organized by the Research and Postgraduate Institute of the Faculty of Economics, Government and Communications, and its ESOC Max Planck-UCentral group.
The event was led by Marcos González, academic and researcher at the UCL Social Research Institute, Universidad Diego Portales and COES, and one of the authors -together with Gerry Mitchell- of the book published by Bristol University Press.
The book offers a detailed qualitative work on inequality beyond the analysis of the top 1% of society to cover the top 10% and look at their social and political perceptions.
One of the points made by González was that «an important difference in Europe is that the vision they have of poverty, for example, in Spain, if you ask them about the causes, they were quite fatalistic and gave rather structural answers».
The researcher also stressed that «stop thinking that 10% is so different from 90%, take a pause.»The company said that one element to consider is that it should «bring people with high incomes closer to policies that would benefit everyone and over time inequality within that decile will be seen more and more as inequality within society».
