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——的精英有什麼差別?新的「全球精英資料庫」(World Elite Database,WED)爲我們提供了迄今最完善的可用於比較的數據,這些數據來源於16個國家,它們合計佔全球三分之一人口、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?來自全球精英資料庫的初步結果》(Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database)。