Reading: Albert Hirschman, The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development

Reading: Albert Hirschman, The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development

Tuesday, 27 January 2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
Speaker(s): 
Albert Hirschman
Convenor: 
Dr. Jonny Steinberg
Series: 
South Africa Discussion Group

Albert Hirschman, ‘The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics, 8(4), 1973, p   (This classic essay, published years before South Africa’s democratic transition, seems uncannily to illuminate the wellsprings of legitimacy in South Africa’s young democracy. We discuss its applicability to the South African situation. Those who attend should read it beforehand.)