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Wealth & Poverty Review Anne Bradley on Income Inequality


The one accomplishment of Occupy Wall Street (if it can be called an accomplishment) is to get people talking about the 1% and 99%. Unfortunately, such language betrays several economic myths: that people are frozen like mosquitos in amber in the same income bracket for life, that the wealth of a few causes the poverty of the many, and so forth.
This thinking, in turn, causes moral judgments about inequality to misfire.
Economist Anne Bradley at the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics has just released a new research paper dealing with both the economic and biblical/theological issues involved in income inequality. She makes a number of important points, but perhaps my favorite is that, short of cronyism, we need to be concerned, not with inequality of income, but with the relative prosperity and income mobility of the people at the bottom.
Read the whole thing here.

Jay W. Richards

Senior Fellow at Discovery, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage Foundation
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the Director of the DeVos Center and William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute, and Editor-at-Large of The Stream. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; The Privileged Planet with Guillermo Gonzalez, coming out in a second edition in 2024; The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe with Douglas Axe and William Briggs; and Eat, Fast, Feast. His most recent book, with James Robison, is Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War.