ABSTRACT Are there things that ordinary people can do in their private lives to reduce economic inequality? And, if so, how would these things work? To be sure, there are macro societal mechanisms for reducing inequality. But are there micro mechanisms for reducing inequality? This article first examines inequality measures and behavioral models that produce inequality effects, identifying five sets of inequality mechanisms which lead to levers that ordinary people can use to reduce income inequality, and next discusses the levers, with special attention to their feasibility, ease of use, and side effects. The five levers highlight transfers, equal additions, negative assortative mating, wage schedules that reward multiple personal characteristics, and compensation procedures with voting rules, many voters, diversity of thought, and secret ballots. This work raises new questions for research, such as the sources of diversity of thought.

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你我能做些什么来减少收入不平等？

摘要 普通人可以在私人生活中做些什么来减少经济不平等吗？如果是这样，这些东西将如何运作？可以肯定的是，存在减少不平等的宏观社会机制。但是否存在减少不平等的微观机制？本文首先考察了产生不平等效应的不平等措施和行为模型，确定了导致普通人可以用来减少收入不平等的杠杆的五套不平等机制，然后讨论了杠杆，特别关注它们的可行性、易用性, 和副作用。这五个杠杆突出了转移、等量加法、负组合交配、奖励多种个人特征的工资表，以及具有投票规则、许多选民、思想多样性和无记名投票的补偿程序。