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The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

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Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ, 2023, 280 pp., $24.95 Angus Deaton’s new book is based on his writings for a general audience over the years, organized around the theme of inequality in ...

T HINK ABOUT income inequality in America and some archetypes easily come to mind. Start with a rich corporate lawyer, earning above the roughly $1m annual income (before taxes and transfers) that ...