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Is inequality harmful?

Lane Kenworthy, The Good Society
October 2025

The “Is Income Inequality Harmful?” chapter has been superseded by a book: Is Inequality the Problem? (Oxford University Press, 2025). The book’s introductory chapter is here.

Beginning in October 2026, the book will be available as open access.

A pdf of the last (2016) version of “Is Income Inequality Harmful?” is here.

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