Nolan McCarty

Princeton University

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Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and author of Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

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"All societies are unequal, but some are more unequal than others." So, "why has the US become more so than just about any other rich country in the past 30 years?"

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