"Fifth, the economic system should be designed to distribute resources fairly; inequality, in her view, is a failure of the system, not its inevitable outcome."
Though defining "fairness" is problematic (it's hard to find someone who won't claim they "earned every penny they ever made") this should still be a required sticker on every book about economics. As Marshall McLuhan tried to tell us, the means we use to try to understand and interpret the world are never neutral.
"Fifth, the economic system should be designed to distribute resources fairly; inequality, in her view, is a failure of the system, not its inevitable outcome."
Though defining "fairness" is problematic (it's hard to find someone who won't claim they "earned every penny they ever made") this should still be a required sticker on every book about economics. As Marshall McLuhan tried to tell us, the means we use to try to understand and interpret the world are never neutral.