My
interest in this topic began with some conversations with my
colleague Ed Hess back in 2013. At the time I don't think that
income inequality was in my vocabulary. Soon after these
conversations I saw the movie, Inequality for All which
really piqued my interest. What seemed my appealing that the
topic of Economic Inequality can be very data oriented. New
research papers were coming out nearly every week by scholars all
over the world. Many of the studies raised questions like "how
could that be?" And, the topic cuts across all functions of
business: operations, marketing, and finance. Most of the work
was being done by economists. The topic was appearing daily in
the popular news. The Pope and the President were referencing
it, and such scholars as Nobel Prize Winner, Robert Schiller said,
“The most important problem that we are facing now today, I
think, is rising inequality in the United States and elsewhere in
the world.”
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