The subject of inequality has gotten a lot of press in recent years. Forbes recently predicted that by 2016 the richest 1% of the world's population will own more than half of the world's wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but rising disparities in other elements of life--from school to the media. The authors argue that inequality has become so pervasive that it is the new normal. And when we do recognize troubling inequality, we look at...
The subject of inequality has gotten a lot of press in recent years. Forbes recently predicted that by 2016 the richest 1% of the world's population w...