Spread The Wealth Summary
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Atkinson, Anthony B. “How to Spread the Wealth.” Foreign Affairs 95, no. 1 (2016): 29-33. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=111501181&site=ehost-live.
Atkinson, the Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, researches with a concentration in the distribution of income and wealth. The author is progressive because he specifically states the first step to repair the damage of economic inequality is to create a more progressive income tax. Atkinson offers a new perspective to the concept of economic inequality and redistribution by offering solutions such as, raising the minimum wage, a child benefit program to decrease child poverty in the United States, and regulation on inheritance. A …show more content…
Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University, concentrates his research towards the cause and effects of economic inequality in the United States. In this article, the author is non-partisan because he creates an understanding of different researchers who believe redistribution if efficient, inefficient, and in between. These arguments are more thoroughly explained through three channels of research: an increase in income inequality should lead for an increase in government redistribution, Americans’ support for redistributive policies will increase out of an appetite for equality, and people should foreshadow the public’s increased support for redistribution when challenged with an increase of economic inequality. The source provides a different view towards redistribution, Franko looks at the individual states within the United States, and compares the different modes of redistribution depending on the state’s wealth, whether the state was rich or poor. This method of analysis provides further understanding of the concept of redistribution because Franko examines individual states rather than the United States as a
Atkinson, Anthony B. “How to Spread the Wealth.” Foreign Affairs 95, no. 1 (2016): 29-33. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=111501181&site=ehost-live.
Atkinson, the Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, researches with a concentration in the distribution of income and wealth. The author is progressive because he specifically states the first step to repair the damage of economic inequality is to create a more progressive income tax. Atkinson offers a new perspective to the concept of economic inequality and redistribution by offering solutions such as, raising the minimum wage, a child benefit program to decrease child poverty in the United States, and regulation on inheritance. A …show more content…
Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University, concentrates his research towards the cause and effects of economic inequality in the United States. In this article, the author is non-partisan because he creates an understanding of different researchers who believe redistribution if efficient, inefficient, and in between. These arguments are more thoroughly explained through three channels of research: an increase in income inequality should lead for an increase in government redistribution, Americans’ support for redistributive policies will increase out of an appetite for equality, and people should foreshadow the public’s increased support for redistribution when challenged with an increase of economic inequality. The source provides a different view towards redistribution, Franko looks at the individual states within the United States, and compares the different modes of redistribution depending on the state’s wealth, whether the state was rich or poor. This method of analysis provides further understanding of the concept of redistribution because Franko examines individual states rather than the United States as a