The global economy isn’t working for most people. Instead, it lifts a few ever higher, while the rest fight to get by. These essays look at rampant and growing disparities around a number of challenges, including economic inequality, access to opportunities, education, income, race, wealth, and more. It also offers ideas towards creating more just, sustainable outcomes. Essays from a diverse group of contributors, including academics, activists, artists, business & NGO leaders, economists, and journalists offer the reader an array of perspectives to help them develop a broader understanding of the challenges while giving them the opportunity to evolve their own views.This book will challenge your thinking as it encourages you to reconsider long-held positions. We won't ask you to agree with any one of us, but that you do consider each of our positions and in the end that you refashion your own. Hopefully, our book will tilt you towards action in a world and a society that’s in desperate need of help.What do we do about inequality?: Ideas for divergent economiesTO ADDRESS INEQUALITY, THINK GLOBAL | Dylan MatthewsTHE IDEOLOGICAL STRAITJACKET | Sean McElweeWHAT DOES EQUIPOTENTIALITY BRING TO THE TABLE IN TERMS OF EQUALITY? | Michel BauwensINEQUALITY, UNCOUNTED | Alex CobhamTHE INEFFICIENCY OF INEQUALITY | Daniel AltmanIS CAPITALISM UNFAIR? | Chris MacDonaldTHE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY | Kevin CarsonTOWARDS RENOUNCING PERSONAL PRIVATIZATION | Nicholas ArcherTHE INEQUALITY OF WILDNESS AND THE NECESSITY OF WILDNESS FOR EQUALITY | Megan HollingsworthTHE STICKINESS OF INJUSTICE | Jennifer ReftNOBLE FICTIONS AND SACRED TEXTS | Paul FidalgoTHE VOICES THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN: MAINTAINING CHOICE IN THE AGE OF THE ALGORITHM | John C. HavensTHE EMPATHY DEFICIT: WHY THE INEQUALITY CRISIS IS ALSO A CRISIS OF EMPATHY | Robin CangieBILLIONAIRES WITH DRONES: FROM OLIGARCHY TO NEOMEDIEVALISM | Frank A. PasqualeWHAT SHOULD THE WORLD LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA? | Patrick IberOCCUPY SANDY AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM | Sam KnightTHE “PLACE OF BIRTH” LOTTERY | David Kaib & Chris OestereichINEQUALITY AND THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE | Scott SantensTHE AGE OF INEQUALITY: CAUSES, DISCONTENTS, AND A RADICAL WAY FORWARD | Jason Hickel & Alnoor LadhaTWENTIETH CENTURY SOLUTIONS WON'T WORK FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY INEQUALITY | David O. AtkinsTHE STATE OF AFFAIRS: HEADING FROM BAD TO WORSE | Adnan Al-DainiTHE TRAGEDY OF OUR MIDDLE CLASS | Peter BarnesPOST-SCARCITY ECONOMICS: WHY ARE SOME PUNDITS AND ECONOMISTS STILL ENAMORED OF AUSTERITY? | Tom StreithorstINCOME INEQUALITY: WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT, AND WHAT’S NOT | F. SpagnoliTURMOIL & TRANSITION | Harold JarcheKNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND A POTENTIAL SHIFT IN SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY | Jon HusbandTHE QUESTION OF INEQUALITY: A VIEW FROM INDIA | Akhila VijayaraghavanWHAT YOU KNOW IS BASED ON WHO YOU KNOW | Deborah Mills-ScofieldINEQUALITY IS ABOUT THE POOR, NOT ABOUT THE RICH | Miles KimballTO TACKLE EXTREME POVERTY, WE MUST TAKE ON EXTREME INEQUALITY | Nick Galasso & Gawain KripkeADDRESSING WEALTH EQUALITY WITH INVESTING SOLUTIONS FROM NATURE, NURTURE, AND SCIENCE | Rosalinda SanquicheTHE LOGIC OF STUPID POOR PEOPLE: STATUS, POVERTY AND GATEKEEPING | Tressie McMillan CottomPOOR CHOICES | Melonie FullickTHE PARTICIPATION GAP | Devin StewartGETTING THE FRAME RIGHT | KoAnn SkrzyniarzTHE FIRST JOB CREATOR | Adam KotskoLIFE IN THE TREETOPS: A CHOICE OF CHASTENING PRIVATION OR DEBASING PROSPERITY | Chris Oestereich