COMMENTARY: THE GREAT DIVIDES

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

National Institute Economic Review Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1017/nie.2022.12

J. Chadha

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Abstract

Democracy is unstable as a political system as long as it remains a political system and nothing more, instead of being, as it should be, not only a form of government but a type of society, and a manner of life which is in harmony with that type. To make it a type of society requires an advance along two lines. It involves, in the first place, the resolute elimination of all forms of special privilege which favour some groups and depress others, whether their source be differences of environment, of education, or of pecuniary income. It involves, in the second place, the conversion of economic power, now often an irresponsible tyrant, into a servant of society, working within clearly defined limits and accountable for its actions to a public authority. R. H. Tawney, Equality, 1931.

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民主作为一种政治制度是不稳定的，只要它仍然是一种政治制度，而不是别的，而不是像它应该的那样，不仅是一种政府形式，而且是一种社会类型，以及一种与这种类型和谐相处的生活方式。要使它成为一种社会类型，需要沿着两条路线前进。首先，它包括坚决消除一切形式的特权，不论其来源是环境、教育还是金钱收入的差异，因为这些特权有利于一些群体而压迫另一些群体。其次，它涉及到把经济力量，现在常常是一个不负责任的暴君，转变为社会的仆人，在明确界定的范围内工作，并对其行动向公共当局负责。r.h.托尼，《平等》，1931年。

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National Institute Economic Review ECONOMICS-

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