Inequality is often a consequence of progress. Not everyone gets rich at the same time, and not everyone gets access to the latest life-saving measures, whether access to clean water, to vaccines, or to new drugs preventing heart disease. Inequalities in turn affect progress. . . .
Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (2013), first page of the Introduction.
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