The Pope Is Right: Inequality Is Unjust
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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Lant Pritchett, a colleague of mineat the Harvard Kennedy School, recently took the pope to task ina column for Bloomberg View. He said that the pope’spreoccupation with inequality promotes the sin of envy and thatinequality, in itself, is of no great account: “Povertymatters; injustice matters. Mere inequality is beside thepoint.”
Neither of these criticisms makes much sense to me.