Lincoln-Douglas - NSDA 2020 - Intergenerational Wealth
An intergenerational transfer of knowledge to help you accumulate wins at NSDA Nationals.
TIMESTAMPS:
Definitions and Framework 5:52
Affirmative 21:36
Negative 41:31
SOURCES:
CATO 2019, good overview of wealth inequality in the U.S.: https://www.cato.org/publicati....ons/policy-analysis/
Gale and Scholz, on types of intergenerational transfers (1994): https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pd....f/10.1257/jep.8.4.14
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on values that underlie democracy: https://plato.stanford.edu/ent....ries/democracy/#NonI
Post, Democracy and Equality (2006): https://www.cato.org/publicati....ons/policy-analysis/
Mark Ascher, Curtailing Inherited Wealth, Michigan Law Review (1990): https://www.jstor.org/stable/1....289514?seq=1#metadat
Korom, on inherited wealth affecting overall wealth in EU (2016): https://www.econstor.eu/bitstr....eam/10419/146415/1/8
Sawhill and Rodrigue, on inheritance inequality and social mobility (2015):
https://www.brookings.edu/blog..../social-mobility-mem
Jappelli and Pistaferi, The Economics of Consumption Section 12.5, summarizing the debate on how much wealth is inherited:
https://books.google.com/books?id=b4c0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT274&lpg=PT274&dq=inherited+wealth+80+percent+summers&source=bl&ots=_V2XpvmLFJ&sig=ACfU3U0gksJ9Bl828V0D6ckt8todQ3ikyw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5yZbiovXpAhVDUKwKHeUEBOUQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=inherited%20wealth%2080%20percent%20summers&f=false
Bruce, on inverse correlation between income inequality and democratic values (2018): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p....apers.cfm?abstract_i
Page, et al., on the wealthy having different political values (2013): https://faculty.wcas.northwest....ern.edu/~jnd260/cab/
Prokop, on the wealthy influencing policy outcomes disproportionately (2015): https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/....5624310/martin-gilen
The Urban Institute, on how inheritances are major source of racial wealth disparity (2012):
https://www.urban.org/sites/de....fault/files/alfresco
Brookings, on racial wealth gaps and inheritance generally (2020): https://www.urban.org/sites/de....fault/files/alfresco
Hamilton and Darity, on roots of racial wealth inequality in slavery and discrimination (2010): https://journals.sagepub.com/d....oi/full/10.1007/s121
Alfred Brophy, called What Should Inheritance Law Be? Reparations and Intergenerational Wealth Transfers (2008): https://www.jstor.org/stable/1....0.1525/lal.2008.20.2
James Gordon, on inherited houses driving inequality and segregation (in UK) (2019): https://www.raconteur.net/hr/i....nheritance-inequalit
Feiveson and Sablehaus, on intergenerational wealth further advantaging the advantaged(2018): https://www.federalreserve.gov..../econres/notes/feds-
Benton and Keister, on how median intergenerational transfer is $23,000 (2017): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ISnRsgWAl1gJ:https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/DEFeZ2Rz+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Elinder, et al., Inherited wealth decreases wealth inequality (in Sweden) (2018) https://www.sciencedirect.com/....science/article/pii/
Oxfam 2015, on why inherited wealth dwindles over time: https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs....-public/file_attachm
Oren Levin-Waldman, on how wealth inequality can spur adoption of democracy (2016): https://www.e-ir.info/2016/12/....10/how-inequality-un
Cato Institute, on how wealth accumulation by rich does not affect social spending on the poor (2019): https://www.cato.org/blog/has-....wealth-inequality-er
Sheve and Stasavage, on lack of historical correlation between wealth equality and democratization (2017): https://www.annualreviews.org/....doi/10.1146/annurev-
Nikoloski, on lack of correlation between income equality and democracy (2015): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p....apers.cfm?abstract_i
WIkipedia, Criticism of Democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Criticism_of_democra
Robert Michels, A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911) https://books.google.com/books..../about/Political_Par
Nadia, summarizing Michels on why we shouldn’t correlate democracy with perfect representation of people or progressive results (2020): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745955