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The US left is starting to come to grips with the relationship between democracy and inequality. To date, most of the political attention has been on the domestic aspects of income inequality. What discussion of global trends there has been has focused on the fact that global inequality is falling as some developing countries catch up. I identify an alternative set of empirical findings that highlight how global networks shape patterns of inequality in the US and elsewhere. People think of economic inequality mostly as a domestic issue. Global economic structures play a key role in generating inequality of wealth and influence. They affect who gets what in the global economy.
For example, international rules on intellectual property, laid down in a variety of multilateral and bilateral treaties help ensure the continued dominance of businesses in the US and Europe. They also affect who gets taxed on what they get and who does not. Corporations and the very rich are able to take advantage of a whole industry devoted to crafting tax shelters that are designed to slip between the loopholes of different countries’ rules, or exploit the willingness of some countries to harbor dodgy money. Some of this money stems not from tax evaders but from corruption and other forms of crime. Alex Cooley and Jason Sharman, for example, have carried out extensive research on kleptocratic corruption. Other scholars are trying to estimate how much money is hidden from authorities.
6 trillion, is hidden in offshore arrangements, designed to either avoid or evade taxes. These networks have stark implications for democracy in developing countries. But with globalization, it is not necessary to fight for the rule of law in one’s own country. A much easier course of action is to take all the money and run away to London or New York, where the rule of law already exists and where nobody will ask where the money came from. They have substantial, albeit less immediately dire implications for democracy in advanced industrialized countries, where they reinforce domestic financial and institutional arrangements that make it increasingly hard to trace money. Again, they make it easier for wealthy individuals in these countries to hide money from taxation authorities, weakening the state.
