What is Mobility? | The Economics of Childhood Episode 1

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And more importantly, "mobility for who?"
In this first lecture of #EconomicsOfChildhood Professor Durlauf introduces the economics of mobility and gives an overview of why economics studies the inequality of opportunity. Using the United States as the primary example in the series, he provides the historical and current evidence of how economics identifies the inequality of opportunity and income inequality in general. He reminds us of the two different lenses scholars can examine mobility, intergenerationally (comparing parents to their children) and intragenerationally (social movements throughout one’s lifeline). Overall, he advocates the important concept of “education as steppingstone” when thinking about mobility.
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Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm

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26 авг 2024

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@georgiamakunga2136 Год назад

Gives a good approach to understand what happens in developing countries. Thanks

@CitiesForTheFuture2030 Год назад

At first I thought this video was about urban transit /mobility 😆

@PoliticalEconomy101 Год назад

Mobility is only an issue in societies with high inequality based on capitalism and competition. Even the Nordics have high inequality. A capitalist society with perfect potential mobility can have low actual mobility. In a perfectly equal society, mobility is not an issue.

@colinbaer1022 Год назад

😂😂😂 what perfect society 😂 capitalism while not perfect best so far. What do u want communism where half die dye to starving 😂😂😂

@indcredible7839 Год назад

"If everyone is poor, there is no equality"

@harrisjm62 Год назад

@@colinbaer1022 mathematically, they are correct. The Great Gatsby Curve only includes nation-states and doesn't look at various egalitarian cultures. Mobility isnt an issue for many hunter-gatherers as status comes with age and wealth is shared. No need to even mention communism, but while we're on the topic of half dying of starvation, may I remind you that Britian colonized over 20% of the world and starved its colonies to feed itself (31 famines in India alone during British rule). 90% of the Native American population was also wiped out. Capitalism starved far more people, the ones that it fed are just happier about it.

@adk8351 Год назад

I think if you read any book on American history, you'd find it's really not that complicated 😂 Lots of fancy words to cover up for historic injustices here and I guess to come from this series

@NewEconomicThinking Год назад

This series is about uncovering and recovering from injustices. Not covering them up.

@mikefranz1056 Год назад

A headline must be changed to "What is Social-economic Mobility". He "puts on the table" many rare concepts, so he must provide the script of his talk, not computer-generated.