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- ISBN 9780197774236
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.
Elite networks are informal social networks between politicians in power and top executives of politically connected firms where personal ties and long-term interactions build trust and loyalty between involved actors. Both groups draw benefits from these interactions; politicians stay in power, and corporate executives extract rents for their firms. Firms reward connected executives with higher salaries thus widening the dispersion of earnings in society. In Elite Networks, Vuk Vuković offers a different perspective on the long-run origins of inequality. Calling upon historical arguments and direct empirical evidence, Vuković argues that inequality is not an artifact of a particular economic system, but a man-made phenomenon rooted deeply within the, often violent, quest for political power. Further, he theoretically and empirically establishes the impact elite networks have on higher inequality. Offering a unique contribution to the field, this book argues that to lower inequality and prevent incentives of elite network formation, we must first and foremost lower centralized political power and re-empower the citizens and the community by rebuilding trust and relying on the democratic trial-and-error mechanism.
Vuk Vuković is the CIO and cofounder of Oraclum Capital, a New York hedge fund based on a scientific innovation in network theory. He has a PhD from the University of Oxford, and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He published a dozen academic papers during his time as a university lecturer, and his academic work on political economy and networks has inspired his business ventures.
