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Are we asking the wrong questions about inequality?

Geoff Riley

30th December 2017

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A Nobel Prize-winning economist thinks we’re asking all the wrong questions about inequality. A great read from Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton.

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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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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