Justice
How Valuing Productivity, Not Profession, Could Reduce U.S. Inequality
In this second part of an interview with economist Jonathan Rothwell, he explains that a just society wouldn’t reward different professions so unequally.
This is the second segment of a two-part Q&A with economist Jonathan Rothwell. Read the first part here.
In his new book A Republic of Equals, Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell traces the forces driving the dramatic rise in inequality in the United States. In the first half of our conversation, we talked about how elite professions in the United States perpetuate inequality, both now and historically, and how this contributes to inequality and low productivity in the U.S. economy.