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Income-Inequality.Info
Inequality is a broad multifaceted concept that is impossible to reduce to a single number or visualization; to understand it better, …
Boris Yakubchik
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Branko Milanovic
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(Income-Inequality.Info)
Last updated on May 31, 2019
1 min read
The radical moral implications of luck in human life
In July 2018 (when we first published this piece), there was a minor uproar when Kardashian scion Kylie Jenner, who is all of 21, …
David Roberts
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(Vox)
Mar 5, 2019
1 min read
Ethics and Moral Philosophy
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Economic Justice
The Radicalism of “Equal Opportunity”
You will often hear a distinction drawn between two different kinds of equality: equality of “opportunity” and equality of “outcome.” …
Nathan J. Robinson
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(Current Affairs)
Feb 27, 2019
2 min read
The Roots of Economic Inequality
A new study shows that deeply ingrained social behaviors play a role in perpetuating economic inequality. Yale SOM’s Michael Kraus, one …
Michael W. Kraus
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(Yale Insights)
Dec 1, 2018
1 min read
The American Dream Is Harder To Find In Some Neighborhoods
Does the neighborhood you grow up in determine how far you move up the economic ladder? A new online data tool being made public Monday …
John Ydstie
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(NPR | National Public Radio)
Oct 1, 2018
1 min read
America, Land of Equal Opportunity? Still Not There
Lack of opportunity is a huge source of economic and social dissatisfaction. Income and wealth inequality aren’t pleasant, and many …
Noah Smith
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(Bloomberg)
Apr 3, 2018
1 min read
If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
What factors, then, determine how individuals become wealthy? Could it be that chance plays a bigger role than anybody expected? And …
(MIT Technology Review)
Mar 1, 2018
1 min read
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?
Scott Barry Kaufman
Mar 1, 2018
1 min read
Required reading to understand the tax policy fight
First lesson: the top-heavy tax cuts on the policy agenda today are not the natural outcome of a widely held antipathy to taxation, or …
Vanessa Williamson
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(The Brookings Institution)
Nov 13, 2017
2 min read
The cost of the American dream
PAUL RYAN, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, recently tweeted that, “[i]n our country, the condition of your birth does not …
C. K.
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(The Economist)
Sep 8, 2017
2 min read
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