Instead of focusing on the relationship between capitalism and inequality, we should pursue a solution for inequality
Erdem Aytaç ‘09 [Selim Erdem Aytaç; Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, recipient of the 2016 Young Scientist Award of Science Academy (Turkey) and the 2018 Sakýp Sabancý International Research Award; Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi İktisadi İşletmesi; Spring 2009; “Global Inequality: The Current Debate, It's Importance and Policy Recommendations”; https://www.jstor.org/stable/43926442 // achan]
Despite the significance of the issue, however, we observe that the focus of the bulk of recent research on global income inequality has been on determining its direction and magnitude of change (i.e. whether it is increasing or decreasing, and by how much) in the era of neoliberal globalization. I believe that this situation is unfortunate for two reasons. First, determining the direction of inequality turned out to be a very arduous task due to several methodological and data problems as well as the difficulty of establishing a clear causal linkage between globalization and inequality so that much of the effort in this area did not give satisfactory results. Second and more importantly, even if we cannot agree about the direction of inequality, there is one observation in the literature that has been long established and agreed upon: The current level of global income inequality is very high. Therefore, I argue that instead of spending valuable resources on a futile globalization vs. inequality debate, the scholarship should expend more effort in pursuing the question of how to solve (or at least alleviate) the problem of global inequality. In the light of this observation, the primary purpose of this paper is to review the existing policy recommendations on addressing global income inequality.