Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

by Andrew Berg, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan D. Ostry

Book Overview

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this increase in inequality has in fact been a political choice--and explain what policies we should choose instead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174691
• ISBN13: 9780231174695
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"