Derek Aylward
David B. Grusky
If we’re serious about reducing inequality, we need to do more than raise taxes on the rich.
We need to correct the market failures in labor and education that generate it.
The Experts Respond
Rick Perlstein
The educated unemployed are our rising social problem.
Mike Konczal
The real battle is not about eliminating rents but determining who will benefit from them.
Shikha Dalmia
America has done a remarkable job of closing the only gap that matters: the personal well-being gap.
Ruy Teixeira
Taxing the rich would raise vitally needed revenue.
Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva
The top tax rate could be as high as 83 percent without harming economic growth.
Barbara R. Bergmann
Call it socialistic if you want, but it’s what we need.
Neal McCluskey
Problems in education can’t be blamed on market failure, because American education is dominated by government.
Susan E. Mayer
If anything, tax policy has moderated the increase in inequality since 1979.
Anne L. Alstott
Financial inequality replicates itself in nearly every sphere of life—health, leisure time, even marriage.
Glenn C. Loury
Inequality is a product of our impoverished ideas about autonomy, community, and solidarity—not our economy.
David B. Grusky replies
The legitimacy of levying taxes to recoup illicit gains is beyond dispute.
