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Inequality
Economic inequality – gaps between the rich and the poor in income, pay and wealth – is rising within societies and among nations. It’s a topic covered extensively in research and in the media, so follow the latest thinking and work on inequality here.
Summaries
Unequal Cities
Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States
Columbia UP, 2023
Optimal Money Flow
A New Vision of How a Dynamic-Growth Economy Can Work for Everyone
Greenleaf Book Group, 2020
How the Other Half Eats
The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
Little, Brown Spark, 2021
The Great Demographic Reversal
Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises
The legal scholar Katharina Pistor examines the hidden legal layer propping up our modern economic system.
The New York Times, 2023