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”’This is a book review of “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth” by Benjamin M. Friedman, New York: Knopf, 592 pages, $35”’
For many Americans, riches are so disreputable that taking them away is a goal in itself. The left used to offer the misery of the poor as a reason for redistribution, but these days an increase in inequality is just as likely to be the rallying cry for higher taxation. In a savage New York Times column this past March, the economist Paul Krugman turned rising inequality