
PolicySeptember 1, 2016
How Inequality Threatens Civil Society
A spiral of slow growth and rent-seeking by powerful interests pose a danger to democracy
Sir Angus Deaton, who is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the department of economics at Princeton University, received the 2015 Nobel prize for economics. He holds British and U.S. citizenship and is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

How Inequality Threatens Civil Society
A spiral of slow growth and rent-seeking by powerful interests pose a danger to democracy