According to Pinker, this “confusion of inequality with poverty comes straight out of the lump-sum fallacy—the mindset in which wealth is a finite resource.” Helpfully, Pinker reminds us how the Enlightenment revolutionized our understanding of economics. First, by teaching us that wealth is created; and second, by showing that we can make more of it.
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Can inequality cure poverty?
Former student Quinn Connolly's book review of Steven Pinker does not put it that way, but:
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