The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die

“choice blindness.”

Our principles are, at best, just one source of information that shapes our political beliefs at any moment.

Earned Income Tax Credit, which subsidizes the income of poor working families.

Reducing inequality, similarly, has the potential to address scores of problems at once. But that requires moving away from seeing inequality through a moralizing lens. Instead, I believe we have to view inequality as a public health problem.

The discovery that capuchin monkeys are averse to receiving unequal outcomes, much like humans, suggests that these tendencies are evolved rather than learned.

But categorizing people by their politics is another way that our stereotypes of people are much more rigid and extreme than the actual people themselves.

Altering the ratio of rewards to contributions by making such negative contributions won’t improve a bank account, but it can balance accounts emotionally.

This system of reciprocal sharing works because people remembered.

strongest correlate of inequality was searches for luxury goods.