Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality

Many people are increasingly concerned about economic inequality within their own nations, or between wealthy nations and poor ones. But is today's vast economic inequality best addressed by appeals to ethics, by altering social structures such as taxes and laws, or some combination of the two...

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Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
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