Political science In an article, two political scientists describe the “moral duty”, theorized by Tocqueville and gradually abandoned, of the economic elites.
© David, Jacques-Louis [d.1825-12-29] / Paris Museums
By Madeleine Rouot *
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Lhe fight against economic inequalities animates an important part of the public debate. Every day, our newspapers are full of statistics and articles denouncing the grabbing of wealth by the richest 1% of the population. And at the same time, it is striking to note that this discourse is accompanied in the West by an upsurge in inequalities, and an ever greater separation between a globalized and urban elite and a peripheral and underprivileged France. Many economists and political scientists have sought to understand the springs of these new forms of economic and social inequality: the immense international success of the book by economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the XXIe century, testifies to this. But that doesn’t matter. The climate of mistrust …
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