In his best-selling book The Affluent Society, published in 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith had observed: “Few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue. Among professional economists, and social scientists generally, the seminal contributions in the past half century of John Rawls, Anthony Atkinson, Amartya Sen, Thomas Piketty, and …
The family of the sole survivor of a horror motorway tunnel crash have opened up about the marathon recovery facing their daughter just as she was in the prime of her life and their interstate move to be by her side. Ms McLean suffered broken arms, a shattered pelvis and a major traumatic brain injury, and was rushed to Royal …
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