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Inequality and Power: Beyond Education by kibbutzluca is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Paul Krugman argues that while many claim rising inequality is due to a lack of education or skills gap, the evidence does not support this. Corporate profits and executive pay have soared as a share of national income, not due to returns on investment or skills, but from growing monopoly power. Rising inequality is really about unequal power in the workplace and economy, not about knowledge or education. Reframing inequality as an education issue avoids the truly hard policy solutions needed to address gro

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