“Inheritance is the most important reason for rising inequality”. With this and other impactful statements, Martyna B. Linartas punctuated her arguments concerning social disparities, possibilities for introduction of a new inheritance tax and discussed the role of billionaires in Germany. You can watch the interview with journalist Adrian Schulz during the Berlin Science Week now.

Speakers

Martyna Berenika Linartas is a political scientist and postdoc in the excellence cluster SCRIPTS. She teaches at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on international political economy and is founder of the website ungleichheit.info – a platform that transfers knowledge and information on inequality from academia to the general public – in order to comprehend, convey, and challenge inequality.

Adrian Schulz is a journalist and editor for the interview pages "Im Gespräch" at the “Tagesspiegel”. Previously, he completed a traineeship at the Tagesspiegel and was an author and columnist at "taz", “Zeit Online”, “FAZ” and “Neues Deutschland”. He studied political science, comparative literature and aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main.