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| Title: | | Inequality in historical perspective  |
| Authors: | | Jolly, Richard |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2006/32 |
| Abstract: | | Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over the last two or three decades. There is a case today for more outspokenness about the extremes of inequality, both about the causes and how these causes are linked to extreme injustices in the past. |
| Subjects: | | income inequality classical economists United Nations |
| JEL: | | B12 D31 015 |
| ISBN: | | 9291908002 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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