Are we asking the wrong questions about inequality?
A Nobel Prize-winning economist thinks we’re asking all the wrong questions about inequality. A great read from Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton thinks we’re asking all the wrong questions about inequality https://t.co/JVpegK8u85 via @qz
— Brian Bartle (@BrianBartle) December 28, 2017
As Angus Deaton says, it is not inequality per se but unfairness that does the real damage to societies https://t.co/TfvQPRwSjK
— Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) December 29, 2017
Unfairness in the rules governing the economy are the root cause of long term wage stagnation (rather than inequality, globalisation or tech), says Nobel-winner Angus Deaton. And they're fixable. https://t.co/Y5PtxriHsn
— Gavin Kelly (@GavinJKelly1) December 28, 2017
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