Angus Deaton: How do we Solve the Problem of Inequality in America? (Bristol Ideas)

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From a scholar born in Britain I would expect at least some reference to the inherited role Americans retained from life under British law that secured and protected landed privilege. From Turgot, Adam Smith captured the essence of how an immediate redistribution of wealth from producers to rentier interests was institutionalized. This systemic level of entrenched privilege has never been addressed. I have recently read the first two volumes of a trilogy written by Fred Harrison, director of the Land Research Trust in London, titled "#WeAreRent," in which he documents the history of the how this wealth confiscation occurred.

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