Divergence in mind: Why inequality devil is as black as he is painted

Abstract

The paper presents contemporary economic discussions about the problems of inequality and the actual circumstances than make it difficult to take into account not only statistical, but also the socio-political conjuncture of wealth and income divergence. The paper concludes that objective and complex analysis of inequality faces methodological problems — such as discrepancies in the tools for measuring inequality or fundamental disregard for interdisciplinary research perspectives, — and also with disregard of the “subjective” component of the inequality perception.

Henomenon Of Russian Poverty

“…Russian economists actively address the issue of poverty, exploring the current socio-economic and mental characteristics of the country. Russian inactive population is at the center of studies (Warsaw & Denisenko, 2015), as well as the features of poverty in Moscow and the comparison of regional data with all-Russian indicators (Rzhanitsyna, 2018), the issues of the relative poverty threshold and the edge of high poverty risks (Slobodenyuk & Anikin, 2018), the tools for assessing inequality, and the neglect of a subjective component of inequality reception (Telin, 2019).…”

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“…Economic inequality has attracted considerable attention of economists, sociologists and, more recently, psychologists due to the many negative consequences of excessive inequality (Norton, Ariely, 2011;Telin, 2019;Zhuravlev, Yurevich, RUSSIAN APPLIED RESEARCH: PERSPECTIVES FROM POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 2018). The danger of excessive inequality was recently analyzed in detail by A.L.…”

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