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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

In Defense of Inequality

  • Finis Welch
American Economic Review
vol. 89, no. 2, May 1999
(pp. 1–17)
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Citation

Welch, Finis. 1999. "In Defense of Inequality." American Economic Review, 89 (2): 1–17. DOI: 10.1257/aer.89.2.1

JEL Classification

  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions