Capitalism today

Understanding and confronting the great inequality

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Michael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is needed to overcome the great inequality that marks our time.

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Great InequalityMichael Yates explains why inequality matters, how it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, how its underlying causes are rooted in modern capitalism, and why informed radical action by working people, the unemployed and the poor is needed to overcome the great inequality that marks our time.

Michael is author of The Great Inequality (Routledge, 2016), a book that explains why growing inequality in income, wealth, and power will be a central issue of politics in the 21st Century. He is associate editor of Monthly Review, and editorial director of Monthly Review Press.

Michael was interviewed on Equal Time Radio, on radio station WDEV, in Warren, Vermont.

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