This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: The Impact of Inequality
Inequality is the difference in income between the most and worst well-off. Is this a problem? Why are there inequalities? This lists' books aim at discussing the inequality issues.
If you are interested in these intriguing connections, you may also be interested in What Poverty Means?
General Perspective
- Progress and Poverty by Henry George
- Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
U.S. Perspective
- The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
World Perspective
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
