Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63333 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2006/32
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
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
O15
ISBN: 
9291908002
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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