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Inequality and human development
- Author: United Nations Development Programme
- Main Title: Human Development Report 2005 , pp 49-71
- Publication Date: December 2005
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/11b71219-en
- Language: English
“What is it that impels the powerful and vocal lobby to press for greater equality?” asked Margaret Thatcher, then UK prime minister, in 1975. She offered her own answer: “Often the reason boils down to an undistinguished combination of envy and bourgeois guilt.” Plato took a different view. Writing in the fifth century BC he warned Athenian lawmakers of the threat posed by extreme inequality. “There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth”, he wrote, “for both are productive of great evil.”
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ISBN (PDF):
9789210576949
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/f62048a2-en
Related Subject(s):
Economic and Social Development
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