Dynamics Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has…

— Robert H. Frank

“In short, this latest attempt to debunk the notion that we’ve become a vastly more unequal society has itself been debunked. And you should…

— Anonymous

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period…

— William Julius Wilson

We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

— Paul Krugman

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic…

— John Lanchester

A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy…

— Robert J. Shiller

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left…

— Paul Krugman

“The three topics of this book - technological change, education, and inequality - are intricately related in a kind of 'race.' During the first…

— Claudia Goldin

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

— Kevin Drum

Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and staged more…

— Robert H. Frank