I’d just like to point to the second half of that little piece. I do try to make it very clear that while I accept that rich country inequality rises as an effect of globalisation and trade, I do state that economics cannot tell us whether this is a good thing or not. It can say that it is, that it exists, but the morality of it, whether you or I think it a good thing, that’s something decided by our own moral values before we get to the economics part.
I do say that I think it is a good idea, yes, but it’s certainly possible for people to disagree: for example, there are those who would say that inequality within a community is more corrosive a social force than inequality across them.
I don’t agree, but then that’s because they and I have a different (and I’m extremely hesitant to try and use ” better” here) moral view of the world.