REPRESSION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Abstract

Repression is an integral part of a class-based society. In these societies a relatively small number of people own a very large share of productive resources. This concentration of asset ownership inevitably leads to a highly unequal distribution of income and with it a division of society into a small number of haves and a much larger number of have-nots. The haves constantly fear that the have-nots will seize their property either by outright force or through legislation. Over the centuries they have devised methods of social control to preserve the existing property relationships.

Citation

Shaffer, E.H. (2004), "REPRESSION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN", Samuels, W.J. (Ed.) Wisconsin "Government and Business" and the History of Heterodox Economic Thought (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(03)22050-2