A rational and effective policy for dealing with it-if there is to be one-will have to rest on an understanding of the causes of increasing inequality. This ominous anti-democratic trend has finally found its way into public consciousness and political rhetoric. The most striking aspect has been the widening gap between the rich and the rest. Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere has been worsening since the 1970s. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press)
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