Inequality Rediscovered
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David Singh Grewal
Abstract
Widespread recognition that economic inequality has been growing for forty years in most of the developed world, and in fact has tended to grow across most of the history of modern economies, shows that the period 1945-1973, when inequality of wealth and income shrank, was a marked anomaly in historical experience. At the time, however, the anomalous period of equality seemed to vindicate a long history of optimism about economic life:that growth would overcome meaningful scarcity and usher in an egalitarian and humanistic period that could almost qualify as post-economic. This has not been the experience of the last four decades. In this intellectual history of the anomalous period, we trace the main lines of that optimism and its undoing.
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- Theoretical Inquiries in Law
- Introduction
- International Tax and Global Justice
- How Charitable Is the Charitable Contribution Deduction?
- Inequality Rediscovered
- Competence, Desert and Trust — Why are Women Penalized in Online Product Market Interactions?
- Income Inequality: Not Your Usual Suspect in Understanding the Financial Crash and Great Recession
- The New Inequality of Old Age: Implications for Law
- Forces of Federalism, Safety Nets, and Waivers
- Putting Distribution First
- What’s Law Got to Do with It? Crisis, Growth, Inequality and the Alternative Futures of Legal Thought
- In Memory of Tamara Lothian
Articles in the same Issue
- Theoretical Inquiries in Law
- Introduction
- International Tax and Global Justice
- How Charitable Is the Charitable Contribution Deduction?
- Inequality Rediscovered
- Competence, Desert and Trust — Why are Women Penalized in Online Product Market Interactions?
- Income Inequality: Not Your Usual Suspect in Understanding the Financial Crash and Great Recession
- The New Inequality of Old Age: Implications for Law
- Forces of Federalism, Safety Nets, and Waivers
- Putting Distribution First
- What’s Law Got to Do with It? Crisis, Growth, Inequality and the Alternative Futures of Legal Thought
- In Memory of Tamara Lothian
