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What History and Economics Tell Us About Inequality's Future
Sir Anthony Atkinson is Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.
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The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen
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