There do not appear to be many examples of governments th...

There do not appear to be many examples of governments that both increase inequality and raise the standard of living of the bottom 10%. Instead, it appears to be one or the other: Dan Davies (2015): Up and Down, Left and Right: "Inequality in the UK against the income of the poorest 10%, as a time series.... It hits you right between the eyes. It���s all up-and-down or left-and-right. The sort of thing that generates the difficult cases for liberal political philosophy���increases in inequality which nevertheless benefited the worst-off, which would have showed up as a southwest-to-northeast upward slope���never happened...

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