A review by laurendeen
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne

5.0

The Broken Ladder is a nonfiction book detailing the consequences of inequality. It's very well written and easy to understand, even if you aren't familiar with the more technical aspects. The one drawback is that this book seems to be much more wide than it is deep - there are tons of examples, but Payne doesn't really go into much detail about why inequality causes these issues. He definitely mentions it throughout the book, but I would have liked more detail about the causality.