Episode 5: Varieties of Wealth, with Jens Beckert

Jens Beckert (MPIfG) talks with us about his article “Varieties of wealth: toward a comparative sociology of wealth inequality,” which examines two cases of high-wealth inequality to illustrate how different aspects of wealth can be more important, more powerful, or more tolerable according to institutional and cultural contexts. https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/22/2/475/7497086