Postscript

Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue?

“…As such, 'inequality knowledge' did not intersect with 'poverty knowledge' that showed a concentration of deprivation amongst women and African-Americans -allowing the New Right to fill the void with renewed arguments about the cultural roots of poverty, diverting attention away from inequality. 23 Nonetheless, despite the limits of the available data, evidence on evolution of inequality was mounting. By the early 1990s, a number of studies pointed towards a sustained increase in inequalities and to the likely growing share of income of the top percentiles of earners.…”