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January 7, 2020, Opinion, "The United States currently exhibits more economic inequality than any peer nation, and surveys of US adults support the idea that inequality is acceptable if it is balanced by mobility. Many are untroubled if doctors make 10 or 20 times what janitors make, as long as janitors’ sons have opportunities to become doctors. In an era of rising income and wealth inequality in the United States since the 1970s, that balance…
Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality. Jason Beckfield, 2019, Book, "Argues that European integration causes the convergence and retrenchment of European welfare states. Shows that regional integration has important effects on European welfare states and income inequality in Europe over and above those of globalization. Develops the concept of "technocratic capitalism" as an interpretation of a predominant form…
The Rise of Economic Insecurity in the EU: Concepts and Measures. Jason Beckfield, 2017, Paper, "Economic instability, an array of social changes, and welfare state retrenchment place the question of economic insecurity high on the scholarly and political agenda. We contribute to thesedebates by drawing conceptual distinctions between inequality and insecurity. Fundamentally,inequality concerns the distribution of resources across individuals,…