The social contract is threatened by the inequality The world Bank proposes to remedy the situation effective distribution and progressive tax. Upstairs The world Bank has published yesterday the report “Towards a new social contract” — the most discussed in recent years, the problem of inequality and the ways of dealing with it. The report warns that the rise in ‘unfair’ distribution of wealth threatens the stability of the social contract — and the increasing demand for “fair” redistribution of wealth, and the “polarization” of society in the voting, as the election of the President of the United States or in the event of a British exit from the EU. However, the proposed WB recipes for preserving social equilibrium is traditionally socialistic — progressive taxation and increase of efficiency in the distribution of wealth among citizens. Three chapters published yesterday a large-scale world Bank report “Towards a new social contract”
