How much inequality can we cope with? By Publius

The Economics

Following on from John’s vlog on Monday about the French elections, and given the wave of rail strikes breaking in the UK this week, billed by the press as the worst since the early 1980s, I want to discuss whether our Western democracies have become too unequal.

All free societies give rise to inequality, of wealth, of education, of health and longevity…