num_pages: 400
description: Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problemtalk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debatebut there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair. According to the distinguished economist Anthony Atkinson however we can do much more than skeptics imagine.[Atkinson] sets forth a list of concrete innovative and persuasive proposals meant to show that alternatives still exist that the battle for social progress and equality must reclaim its legitimacy here and now Witty elegant profound this book should be read.Thomas Piketty New York Review of BooksAn uncomfortable affront to our reigning triumphalists. [Atkinsons] premise is inequality is not unavoidable a fact of life like the weather but the product of conscious human behavior.Owen Jones The Guardian
language: English
title: Inequality: What Can Be Done?
publisher: Harvard University Press