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Two key questions for any society are: what determines average income, and what determines its distribution? I devoted most of the 1970s to working on these issues.
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Layard, R. (1999). Introduction. In: Tackling Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375284_2
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