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Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles

Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles

Update: 2024-08-05
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A recently released research paper calls into question many of the assumptions about the rate at which income inequality has grown in the US over the past 75 years. Today on the show, Soumaya and the FT’s economics commentator, Chris Giles, discuss this bombshell report, and what it means for economists thinking about wealth and income in the US.


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Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles

Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles