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Wealth gap ushers in premature deaths
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 12/12/2015
» This week, Angus Deaton will receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare”. Deservedly so. Indeed, soon after the award was announced in October, Mr Deaton published some startling work with Ann Case in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — research that is at least as newsworthy as the Nobel ceremony.
Rise of inequality in the 21st century
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 09/09/2014
» The reception in the United States, and in other advanced economies, of Thomas Piketty's recent book Capital in the Twenty-First Century attests to growing concern about rising inequality. His book lends further weight to the already overwhelming body of evidence concerning the soaring share of income and wealth at the very top.