{"id":4197,"date":"2003-05-12T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2003-05-12T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2003-05-12T11:19:23","slug":"brian-barry-on-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Brian Barry on inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/polisci\/faculty\/barry.htm\">Brian<\/p>\n<p>Barry<\/a> spoke at Maryland on Friday, making a good old-fashioned case<\/p>\n<p>for economic equality. He cited the following statistics as evidence that<\/p>\n<p>we do not have much <b>social mobility in the US<\/b>: If you are a male<\/p>\n<p>born in the poorest tenth of the population, you have only a 1.3 percent<\/p>\n<p>chance of reaching the top ten percent during your lifetime, and just<\/p>\n<p>a 3.7 percent chance of becoming at all wealthy (in the top fifth). If<\/p>\n<p>you are born in the bottom tenth, the odds are more than even that you<\/p>\n<p>will never make it out of the bottom fifth. Barry&#8217;s source is Samuel Bowles<\/p>\n<p>and Herbert Gintis, &quot;The Inheritance of Inequality,&quot; <i>Journal<\/p>\n<p>of Economic Perspectives<\/i> 16 (2002) 3 &#8211; 30, p. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Barry spoke at Maryland on Friday, making a good old-fashioned case for economic equality. He cited the following statistics as evidence that we do not have much social mobility in the US: If you are a male born in the poorest tenth of the population, you have only a 1.3 percent chance of reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}