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Mystery Of Mounting Inequality Might Find Answer In Brand-New Tome

A few decades ago, inequality started rising in countries around the world. That came as a shock to many economists who originally thought inequality tended to go down overtime. They wondered how inequality could rise in so many different places at once. Well, now a new book by one of the world?s leading experts on the topic suggests an answer to that mystery. Jacob Goldstein of our Planet Money team reports. Quoted: Steven Durlaf, professor of economics.