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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] The Global Knowledge of Divided Societies. The Measurement of Economic Inequality in Europe and the World since 1945
DESCRIPTION:Panel of the GHI London
When present-day readers think of ‘divided societies’, the disparity of incomes and wealth is certain to be among the first associations that come to mind. However, the skyrocketing public interest in economic inequality is a historical phenomenon in itself, which only started to gain more traction in the 1990s/2000s. Similarly, the availability of detailed knowledge seems natural in the modern world, but it was only in the 1960s that most countries started to develop more reliable statistics on the distribution of income and wealth. These statistics have come to play an increasingly important role in modern political culture: they influence debates about distributional issues, societal self-descriptions and perceptions of other societies. They suggest mathematical objectivity, yet, in fact, they represent cultural constructs with a history. The historicisation of income and wealth statistics has long been regarded as a gap in historiography, but recently historians have begun to explore the transnational history of these concepts. The panel aims to make a contribution to the growing field of research on the transnational history of the measurement of economic inequality from the perspective of the history of knowledge. It explores the production, circulation, interpretation and uses of knowledge on income and wealth distribution in different world regions, political systems and welfare regimes. It combines several strands of current historiography (the history of statistics and social sciences; social inequality and societal self-descriptions; the ‘scienticisation’ of politics and society; political languages and the history of concepts). The panel departs from the twofold hypothesis that the global history of inequality knowledge was marked by non-knowledge and non-internationalization over long stretches of the twentieth century. It was not until the 1990s and 2000s that complicated processes of convergence led to increased entanglements and the emergence of a global debate on inequality.
Der Beitrag The Global Knowledge of Divided Societies. The Measurement of Economic Inequality in Europe and the World since 1945 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
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