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The Science of Inequality

catdynamics | August 22, 2014

Science had a very interesting special section this spring: The Science of Inequality - basically doing a summary and review of issues related to the stuff in Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century The section has a series of very interesting articles on a range of related topics: "Inequality in the Long Run" by Piketty and Saez "The ancient roots of the 1%" by Pringle "Our Egalitarian Eden" by Pennisi "Physicists say it's simple" by Cho "Tax man's gloomy message: the rich will get richer" by Marshall "A World of Difference" by Underwood "Can Disparities by Deadly?" by Underwood…

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