Inequality

Here are some general pieces on inequality for your weekend reading. The New Yorker – ……..Piketty believes that the rise in inequality can’t be understood independently of politics. For his new book, he chose a title evoking Marx, but he doesn’t think that capitalism is doomed, or that ever-rising inequality is inevitable. There are circumstances, he…

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Job Opening

If anyone is interested Cambridge University has an opening for the Lucasian Chair of mathematics. Previous holders include  Issac Newton,  George Stokes,  Charles Babbage,  Paul Dirac and   Stephen Hawking. I am actually surprised by the advertisement since I thought they generally had someone earmarked for the job when the tenure of the incumbent ended.