Understanding Economic Inequality: Bigger Pies and Just Deserts
- ISBN-10
- 1788971604
- ISBN-13
- 9781788971607
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-01-31
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Author
- Todd A. Knoop
Description
In Understanding Economic Inequality, the author brings an economist’s perspective informed by new, groundbreaking research on inequality from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and political science and presents it in a form that it is accessible to those who want to understand our world, our society, our politics, our paychecks, and our neighbors’ paychecks better.
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