Why Is Inequality Wrong?

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl Princeton University Press, 2018 xii + 337 pages Radical MarketsĀ has at least one virtue. The book contains many unusual proposals, and I propose to concentrate on one of the strangest of these. Eric Posner, a legal scholar, and Glen Weyl, a principal researcher at Microsoft, call for speculative boldness, and they have given us that; but sound argument is another matter. The authors agree with prevailing leftist dogma on one matter, but differ with it on another. They accept the conventional wisdom that … Continue reading Why Is Inequality Wrong?