Inequality : What Everyone Needs to Know
Inequality : What Everyone Needs to Know Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of…
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Inequality : What Everyone Needs to Know
Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years. What does economic inequality mean? Even so, many people remain confused about what, exactly, politicians and media persons mean when they discuss inequality.
Why should we care? How is it measured? Why did inequality rise in the United States?
Is rising inequality an inevitable feature of capitalism? What should we do about it?Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know takes up these questions and more in plain and clear language, bringing to life one of the great economic and political debates of our age.