What to do about wealth inequality?
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| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
| Part of: Meet the Scientist |
Rising wealth inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time – the development has the explosive potential to divide societies of liberal democracies and damage the economy. Martyna Linartas looks at Germany and Mexico. As different as these two countries are, they are currently and globally among the democracies with the highest wealth inequality. They are inheritance societies rather than meritocracies. How can extreme inequality be reduced? Are new legal regulations on inheritance tax sufficient? What role do the (performance) narratives of economic elites play in reducing extreme inequality? Martyna Linartas reflects on these and other questions in the series Meet the Scientist.
SPEAKER
Martyna Berenika Linartas is Doctoral Researcher at the Excellence Cluster Contestations of the Liberal Scripts (SCRIPTS). She holds an M.A. in Political Science and teaches in international political economy at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. She worked as social media press officer for the Headquarters of the German Green Party and for the Election Campaign of Annalena Baerbock. Martyna is founder of ungleichheit.info – a global platform that transfers knowledge and information on inequality from academia to the general public – in order to comprehend, convey, challenge. Besides she is also involved in the Forum New Economy and the campaign by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on Erben verpflichtet!