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Visualizing inequality

Adam G. Hughes (Virginia): Visualizing Inequality: How Graphical Emphasis Shapes Public Opinion. Shi-Ling Hsu (Florida State): Inefficient Inequality. Matthew Dimick (SUNY-Buffalo): Should the Law Do Anything About Economic Inequality? Alan Thomas (Tilburg): Rawls, Piketty and the New Inequality. Daniel Hirschman reviews On Inequality by Harry Frankfurt. The costs of inequality: Alvin Powell on when a fair shake isn’t. We’ve been measuring inequality wrong — here’s the real story. Hamilton Nolan on how rent-seeking is driving inequality. Fareed Zakaria is wrong: The Left has plenty of good solutions for inequality, they just don’t get mentioned in the WaPo opinion pages. Robert Shiller on how wage insurance could ease economic inequality. How the other fifth lives: The self-segregation of a privileged fifth of the population is changing the American social order and the American political system.