Good Politics Can Reverse Inequality

According to a recent report by Oxfam, the richest eighty-five people in the world, including Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Aliko Dangote, own more wealth than the 3.5 billion people who constitute the poorest half of the world’s population. I have argued here before that rising income and wealth inequality is the most urgent challenge of our time. In his Apostolic Exhortation in November 2013, Pope Francis wrote; “Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories, which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and...