グローバル経済下の格差拡大とアメリカの現状(大会報告・共通論題:格差拡大社会-史的接近と現状分析-)

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This paper discusses the present state and causes of the contemporary expansion of economic and social inequality in the United States. Making up for intermediate explanations between theory and reality, and accepting the understanding that "people make history", this paper focuses on middle class citizens in the United States, nearly seven-tenths of the total population of this country, i.e. the actual governing group. Then we discover that middle class citizens in fact expect a more competitive economy and society, the ultimate causes of the inequalities. Even though the expansion of inequality and its resolution will threaten national stability, middle class citizens, including the economic losers, not only not deny that neo-liberal policies and a competitive economy are the background factors causing inequality but expect such policies. The reasons are first, the inclination to a petit-capitalist conception expecting revival of opportunities, efficiency and growth; second, reliance on a more competitive economy in order to defend middle class citizens' interests against the rising lower classes under liberal conditions, democracy and the results of the Civil Rights Movement; and third, the impossibility of middle class citizens' withdrawal from the competitive global economic structure which benefits them. The middle class citizens whom we can see today were shaped in the New Deal period, and gained a certain abundant standard of living with various safety devices (social security in case of unemplayment, etc.) under the corporate Liberal regime, and after the collapse of this regime, ran around pursuing opportunities, efficiency and growth to the extent that they brought about their own ruin. The expansion of inequalities is nothing other than the phenomenon of the historical process of the fall of the American middle class citizens.
2007-04-30

グローバル経済下の格差拡大とアメリカの現状(大会報告・共通論題:格差拡大社会-史的接近と現状分析-)

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