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The Price of Inequality
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel laureate Stiglitz on how inequality undermines growth, democracy and stability, and what to do. Forceful and clear.
Read it if…
you want the economic case against inequality.
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Skip it if…
you want a counterargument.
Try instead: Globalization and Its Discontents →
Three things you will actually use
- Inequality is a choice.
- Rent-seeking costs everyone.
- Policy made it; policy can unmake it.
Do this first
Read the chapter on rent-seeking.
Our verdict
Stiglitz on inequality.
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