¿LA RIQUEZA DE UNOS POCOS NOS BENEFICIA A TODOS?

¿LA RIQUEZA DE UNOS POCOS NOS BENEFICIA A TODOS?

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

$219.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
PAIDOS
Materia
SOCIOLOGIA
ISBN:
978-607-569-474-0
Idioma:
Castellano

Por lo general se cree que la mejor manera de ayudar a los pobres a salir de su miseria es permitir que los ricos sean aún más ricos. Si los que tienen más dinero pagan menos impuestos entonces todos estaremos mejor, un análisis que se concluye afirmando que la riqueza de unos pocos nos beneficia a todos. Sin embargo, estas creencias entran en flagrante contradicción con nuestra experiencia diaria, con el resultado de numerosas investigaciones y, por supuesto, con la lógica. Esta extraña discrepancia entre los hechos y las opiniones populares nos inducen a preguntarnos: ¿Por qué estas opiniones gozan de tanto predicamento y permanecen inalterables frente a las, cada vez mayores, pruebas de lo contrario?

Este libro es un intento de responder a esta cuestión. Bauman enumera y examina los supuestos tácitos y las convicciones irreflexivas en las cuales se fundamentan estas opiniones, y nos muestra que todas y cada una de ellas son falsas, fraudulentas y engañosas. No podrían sostenerse ni perdurar en el tiempo si no fuera por el papel que desempeñan a la hora de defender el actual e indefendible crecimiento de la desigualdad social y de la brecha entre la élite y el resto de la sociedad.

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