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There Isn’t Fairness in Equality

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There Isn’t Fairness in Equality
Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Nov. 30, 2017. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Steven Schwartz
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Barack Obama called it “the defining issue of our time.” The widely quoted but rarely read author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” Thomas Piketty, called it a threat to democracy. And the Australian Council of Social Services fears it is getting much worse.

Steven Schwartz
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Emeritus Professor Steven Schwartz has served as vice chancellor of Australia's Macquarie University, Murdoch University, and the UK's Brunel University. He has advised and chaired numerous education bodies including the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). As an academic, Schwartz's research spans clinical psychology, psychiatry, and public health—he has also published over 100 articles in scientific journals and 13 books.
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