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Edward Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University, a research associate at the Levy Institute of Economics at Bard College, and the author of many books and scholarly studies of wealth and wealth disparity. Formerly he served as managing editor of The Review of Income and Wealth.
The current tax system in the United States leaves vast differences in wealth and power largely untouched.
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