All Articles tagged inequality

• Book Reviews
  May 30, 2024 CDT
  Book Review: Slouching towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
  Patrick Newman

  Brad DeLong’s book on economic growth in the US and the rest of the world from 1870 to 2010 is afflicted by problems and proves disappointing, says Patrick Newman.

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• Book Reviews
  February 20, 2024 CDT
  Book Review: Social Justice Fallacies
  Charles Amos

  Charles Amos reviews Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies, a refutation of the verdicts of Progressives on the moral status of inequalities between the races, sexes and classes.

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• Book Reviews
  July 29, 2023 CDT
  Book Review: The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
  Morgan Reynolds

  Gramm, Ekelund, and Early's important new book shows how government agencies ignore welfare benefits and taxes when calculating actual income, resulting in overblown poverty and inequality numbers.

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• Articles
  December 23, 2022 CDT
  Happiness and Public Spending
  François Facchini

  What are the limitations of happiness economics? Is happiness economics biased toward a utopian ideal? François Facchini investigates this new critique of the free market economy.

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• Book Reviews
  August 22, 2022 CDT
  Book Review: A Brief History of Equality
  Mark Thornton

  Mark Thornton reviews Thomas Piketty's latest book, a "siren song of communism." The brevity of this book makes it potentially the most socially devastating of Piketty's so far.

• Notes and Replies
  October 30, 2018 CDT
  The Great Leveling: A Note
  Mark Thornton

  Mark Thornton evaluates Lindert and Williamson's push for progressive redistribution policies, which reflects Malthusian and Classical economic misconceptions.

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