In the U. S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.
Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
Wealth inequality has increased.
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.
The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006 is the same one that we have maintained in 2010 and 2011. My macroeconomic policy is to strengthen and ensure economic growth but with social inclusion.
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another. . . Inequality undermines democracy.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.
Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property. . . Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.
