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Are we asking the wrong questions about inequality?
30th December 2017
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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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty 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 conferences in the UK and overseas.
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