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A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 9, “The Great International Divergence Can Be Overcome”

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McCloskey wraps up part 1 with this chapter asking a great question that has surely popped in your head if you’ve been reading these chapter reviews.

But what about the poor right now in the rest of the world? Have you no pity? (p. 73)

She has addressed in a previous chapter how many people have climbed out of a subsistence living in the past couple of hundred years.

When Would You Rather be Poor?

And she has explained why income inequality is not the problem to address, but instead the goal should be helping those who are in relative and absolute poverty.

Could It Be Income Inequality Is Not a Problem?