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This book deals with poverty and inequality which together pose many of the biggest problems running through the politics of the more highly developed economies. Most of our current public debates, whether they be about crime, health, education, unemployment, social benefits or taxes, deal with subheadings of this fundamental issue. The problems which these debates deal with are, in large part, causes of poverty or effects of poverty, or both. They would not all disappear if we lived in a society of equals, but we cannot get far in solving these problems unless we also make progress in reducing poverty and the divisive drift into deepening social inequality which excludes growing numbers of our people from the mainstream of their society.
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Donnison, D. (1998). Egalitarians and Greens. In: Policies for a Just Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26058-4_9
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