Piketty, Stiglitz and Our Renewed Interest in Inequality
Category: POLITICS
The study of inequality has been going on forever. To give you an idea, the index used to measure how unequal the distribution of income is -- the "Gini Coefficient" -- was invented a century ago. So, why the sudden interest? Why worry now about something that has been the fodder of academics, politicians, and the media for so long?
By Marcelo Giugale, ContributorDirector of Financial Advisory and Banking Services at the Wor..., 2015-05-10