Inequality is widening faster than ever before. According to the World Economic Forum, the world’s five richest men have doubled their combined wealth since 2020. In the same timespan, 60% of the world’s population have become poorer. And it’s not just economics – inequality plagues the world across politics, identity, gender and race.
But amid all the hand wringing, no-one has yet managed to capture the world’s imagination with a big idea to save us from capitalism’s seemingly dystopian endgame.
For starters, nobody seems to agree on what equality should actually look like, how much of it we want and who exactly it should be for. In his new book , Dartmouth professor Darrin M McMahon explores humankind’s varied attempts to define the concept –
