Projekt

Currently, more than half of the wealth in most OECD countries is not earned but inherited. The central question of the interdisciplinary research project is: How and in what way can the different narratives explain the (re)production of wealth in Germany? Building on the concept of the "deserving rich", the research project will identify discourses, instruments and institutional arrangements of wealth genesis and examine the arguments of "deserved" and "undeserved" wealth. In a historical perspective, the German inheritance tax law of recent German history will be analysed. The results will be used to draw conclusions about social and political transformation processes in the past, present and future.

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
  Institut für Philosophie
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Christian Neuhäuser

  Technische Universität Dortmund
  Fakultät 14 - Humanwissenschaften und Theologie
  Institut für Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft
  Dortmund
  

• Prof. Dr. Philipp Lepenies

  Freie Universität Berlin
  Fachbereicht Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
  Otto-Suhr-Institut
  Berlin