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Reducing Income Inequality at what Cost?

November 20, 2017

Richard Epstein's article discusses the opportunity cost of the American public's obsession with income inequality.  

Would we make different policy choices if we focused on maximizing purchasing power of the average American consumer rather than trying to narrow the gap between the top 1% and the rest of the country?

 

In Economics, Current Affairs Tags Richard Epstein, Hoover Institute
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