How does each country select its economic elite? What are the differences between, say, US and Chinese elites? The new World Elite Database (WED) offers the best comparative data yet, drawn from 16 countries that account for one third of the world’s population and 54 per cent of global GDP. One fascinating early fruit is the paper, “Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database”.
各國都是如何遴選經濟精英的?不同國家——比如說美國與中國——的精英有什么差別?新的“全球精英數據庫”(World Elite Database,WED)為我們提供了迄今最完善的可用于比較的數據,這些數據來源于16個國家,它們合計占全球三分之一人口、54%的GDP。一個有趣的早期成果是這篇論文:《經濟精英有哪些種類?來自全球精英數據庫的初步結果》(Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database)。