lundi 16 décembre 2013

Écart croissant entre les riches et les pauvres: le principal problème des États-Unis?


D'abord assurer la croissance économique ou intervenir pour diminuer les inégalités sociales? Selon Paul Krugman du NY Times, il ne faut surtout pas négliger les coûts des inégalités...

 "Start with the numbers. On average, Americans remain a lot poorer today than they were before the economic crisis. For the bottom 90 percent of families, this impoverishment reflects both a shrinking economic pie and a declining share of that pie. Which mattered more? The answer, amazingly, is that they’re more or less comparable — that is, inequality is rising so fast that over the past six years it has been as big a drag on ordinary American incomes as poor economic performance, even though those years include the worst economic slump since the 1930s.

 And if you take a longer perspective, rising inequality becomes by far the most important single factor behind lagging middle-class incomes.

 Beyond that, when you try to understand both the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery that followed, the economic and above all political impacts of inequality loom large."

L'article au complet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/krugman-why-inequality-matters.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131216

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