The first part of this series described how growing income disparities have made it more expensive for middle-income families to achieve many basic goals, such as sending their children to a decent ...

One of the most provocative — and most disturbing — of this year’s economics books is “The Great Leveler.” Its historian/author Walter Scheidel argues that economic inequality is not only inevitable, ...

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