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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Great Escape The Great Escape Angus Deaton A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place t… OL19367028W
Global inequality Global inequality Branko Milanović The recent surge of inequality in the West has been driven by the revolution in technology, just as the Industrial Revolution drove inequality 150 years ago. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edg… OL20030562W
The politics of resentment The politics of resentment Katherine J. Cramer "Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Wa… OL20045149W
The great leveler The great leveler Walter Scheidel "Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequa… OL20050476W
Polarized America Polarized America Nolan McCarty,Howard Rosenthal,Keith T. Poole "The idea of America as politically polarized - that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states - has become a cliche. What commentators miss, however, is that increa… OL26442565W
Capitalism's Achilles Heel Capitalism's Achilles Heel Raymond W. Baker For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism's Achilles Heel, … OL8231515W