Economics: the architecture of inequality

Aaron Reeves

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Abstract: Aaron Reeves surveys five books on the defining social, political and economic issue of our times. Review of 5 books on inequality: 1. Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future by Thomas M. Shapiro 2. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 3. Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Phillipe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght 4. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne 5. After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum

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Date: 2017-03-16
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Published in Nature, 16, March, 2017, 543, pp. 312-313. ISSN: 0028-0836

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