The Political Effects of Inequality in Latin America: Some Inconvenient Facts
The Political Effects of Inequality in Latin America: Some Inconvenient Facts
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拉丁美洲不平等的政治影响：一些令人难以忽视的事实
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2009
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R. Kaufman
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R. Kaufman
费尔南多·恩里克·卡多佐在谈到自殖民时代以来巴西所面临的极端经济和种族不平等时，曾说过一句名言：巴西不再是一个不发达国家，而是一个不公正的国家。对整个拉丁美洲公众的调查表明，大多数人对自己的社会持有相似的看法。每个国家中只有一小部分人同意当前的收入分配是“不公平”或“非常不公平”。1 还有证据表明不平等会阻碍经济增长。2但即使事实并非如此，我们仍然应该非常关心财富和收入高度集中的社会固有的不公正现象。
Referring to the extreme economic and racial inequalities that have characterized his country since the colonial era, Fernando Henrique Cardoso has famously said that Brazil is no longer an underdeveloped country, but an unjust one. Surveys of mass publics throughout Latin America indicate that large majorities hold similar views about their own societies. All but small percentages in each country agree that the current distribution of income is "unfair" or "very unfair."1 There is also evidence that inequality retards economic growth.2 But even if that were not the case, we should still care a great deal about the inherent injustice of societies with such high concentrations of wealth and income.