Inequality Elsewhere
by The Editors
March 10th, 2006
The Wall Street Journal's Econoblog is now featuring a debate on inequality that can profitably be read alongside Cato Unbound's discussion. Two economists, Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Russell Roberts of George Mason University, hash it out. Their illuminating exchange illustrates the complexity of the inequality debate in terms of the meaning of inequality statistics, the correct application of economic principles, and the moral priority of economic inequality relative to competing concerns.
