TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in wealth inequality in the modern European-American civilization
AU - Čižo, Edmunds
AU - Mietule, Iveta
AU - Kokarevica, Anita
AU - Ostrovska, Inta
AU - Komarova, Vera
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The article has been developed with the financial support of the project “Transformation of Educational Value for Cultural and Economic Growth of Social Community (IzVeTSKKEI)”, Nr. Izp-2020/1-0178
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article aims to analyze changes in wealth inequality in the modern Euro-American civilization (EAC). The research object includes the USA, Western Europe, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. A tool for measuring and comparing wealth inequality is through statistical deciles: the top 10% (including the top 1%), the middle 40%, and the bottom 50% of the population. The time points used for diachronic analysis are: 1995 and 2021. The data source is the World Inequality Database. The results of this study show that in different parts of the modern EAC, there are different trends of changes in wealth inequality: from rapid concentrating to deconcentrating. The USA and Russia are vivid examples of similar (rapidly increasing) wealth inequality, with a very strong wealth concentration, although the average per adult national wealth in the USA is 4-5 times higher than in Russia. Latvia and Ukraine represent an intermediate option between Western Europe and the USA/Russia, which differ from each other in the cultural dimensions of Hofstede. The authors see the multipolarity of the modern EAC, split into the original, European, civilization and two peripheral ones – American and Russian, which are similar in terms of wealth inequality in society, but different in cultural values.
AB - This article aims to analyze changes in wealth inequality in the modern Euro-American civilization (EAC). The research object includes the USA, Western Europe, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. A tool for measuring and comparing wealth inequality is through statistical deciles: the top 10% (including the top 1%), the middle 40%, and the bottom 50% of the population. The time points used for diachronic analysis are: 1995 and 2021. The data source is the World Inequality Database. The results of this study show that in different parts of the modern EAC, there are different trends of changes in wealth inequality: from rapid concentrating to deconcentrating. The USA and Russia are vivid examples of similar (rapidly increasing) wealth inequality, with a very strong wealth concentration, although the average per adult national wealth in the USA is 4-5 times higher than in Russia. Latvia and Ukraine represent an intermediate option between Western Europe and the USA/Russia, which differ from each other in the cultural dimensions of Hofstede. The authors see the multipolarity of the modern EAC, split into the original, European, civilization and two peripheral ones – American and Russian, which are similar in terms of wealth inequality in society, but different in cultural values.
KW - diachronic analysis
KW - Euro-American civilization (EAC)
KW - multipolarity
KW - statistical deciles
KW - wealth concentration
KW - wealth inequality
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U2 - 10.15549/jeecar.v10i3.1217
DO - 10.15549/jeecar.v10i3.1217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162056143
SN - 2328-8272
VL - 10
SP - 439
EP - 454
JO - Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research
JF - Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research
IS - 3
ER -