2011/02/03/Building a Better America

• when: 2011/02/03
• author: Michael I Norton Dan Ariely
• source: PubMed
• topics: Economic disparity/US
• keywords Perspectives on Psychological Science 26162108 10.1177/1745691610393524
• link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26162108/
• title: Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time
• summary: “First, respondents dramatically underestimated the current level of wealth inequality. Second, respondents constructed ideal wealth distributions that were far more equitable than even their erroneously low estimates of the actual distribution. Most important from a policy perspective, we observed a surprising level of consensus: All demographic groups – even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy – desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo.”

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