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Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Wealth of the Poor

Ireland is within our sample and I think across Europe, one of the countries with the highest nominal wages. They generally feel that they're privileged in a very broad kind of nebulous nebulous sort of way. The rich were always someone else, which connects to the right system would start because the rich are never themselves who actually should be paying more tax.

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