CONTENTS

ALSO BY DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

DEDICATION

FOREWORD

PROLOGUE

Part I. Setting the Scene

1.   Introduction

2.   How Piketty Created an Industry

3.   Three Different Types and Four Different Causes of Inequality

4.   Why Inequality Really Matters

Part II. Analysis and Implications

5.   Has the World Become More Unequal?

6.   The Paradox of Rising Inequality and Falling Poverty

7.   Inequality and Growth

Part III. The Deserving and the Underserving Rich

8.   Who Are the Super-rich?

9.   The Undeserving Rich

10.   Clogs to Clogs in Five Generations – Not Three

Part IV. Fixing the Problem

11.   Elephants, Camels and Spitting Cobras What Happens Next?

12.   Education, Education, Education – and Education

13.   Saving Capitalism from Itself

14.   Attacking the Law of Unintended Consequences

15.   Making Poorer People Richer by Cutting the Cost of Living

16.   Can a Universal Basic Income Really Work?

17.   Using Taxation for Redistribution

18.   Neither Trump nor Corbyn – Rejecting False Solutions

19.   Conclusion

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR