A review by jammy_dodger123
The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz

4.0

Really interesting as well as a sobering, and dare I say it, depressing read. As a Brit I would have preferred the book to have more of an internationalist slant but that would probably have been too ambitious. UK has all the US parallels anyway. Other European countries have been far more successful in dealing with inequality. It was the politics that was really telling- apparently deliberate policies to protect the 1%. Actually reading a “pre Trump” book in 2020 makes for some interesting ironies. Stieglitz foresaw that this was the type of leader the US would get if inequality was not dealt with. In UK, the equivalent price of inequality was Johnson and Brexit.