Thinking About Inequality

5/12/17
 
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from CATO Institute,
5/1/17:

In these gloomy and uncertain days, when long-held certitudes about government, politics, and international relations are all under challenge, it is tempting to think that everything is falling apart-or in one fine phrase, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. many people think of globalization as the villain of this piece. Others blame inequality-especially income inequality.

[Angus Deaton, author of The Great Escape] wants to talk about both of them.

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