@article{NortonAriely2011,
  title = {Building a Better America\textemdash One Wealth Quintile at a Time},
  author = {Norton, Michael I. and Ariely, Dan},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Perspectives on Psychological Science},
  volume = {6},
  number = {1},
  pages = {9--12},
  doi = {10.1177/1745691610393524},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610393524},
  abstract = {Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of ``regular'' Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United States and to ``build a better America'' by constructing distributions with their ideal level of inequality. First, respondents dramatically underestimated the current level of wealth inequality. Second, respondents constructed ideal wealth distributions that were far more equitable than even their erroneously low estimates of the actual distribution. Most important from a policy perspective, we observed a surprising level of consensus: All demographic groups\textemdash even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy\textemdash desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo.},
  keywords = {Cross-National Comparisons,Determinants of Wealth and Wealth Inequality,Methods of Estimation of Wealth Inequality}
}

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