The first book by the Wicked Problems Collaborative is scheduled for release on U.S. Labor Day and will be available initially in paperback and Kindle formats. Our first effort takes aim at inequality and looks to help the reader understand the problem from a variety of new perspectives, while offering ideas on moving the needle in better directions. The book was written for academic use, but great care was taken to keep it approachable for a broad audience. WPC Book 1 works to inform and challenge preconceived notions. You will not agree with everything in this book. (Some of the essays challenge each other’s ideas, for that matter), but you should come away with a more nuanced, rounded perspective than you go in with, and plenty of grist for further grinding at the mill, on one of the defining issues of our time.
Please check out our contributor bios.
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WPC Book 1: What do we do about inequality?
- TO ADDRESS INEQUALITY, THINK GLOBAL | Dylan Matthews – Vox
- THE IDEOLOGICAL STRAITJACKET | Sean McElwee – Demos
- WHAT DOES EQUIPOTENTIALITY BRING TO THE TABLE IN TERMS OF EQUALITY? | Michel Bauwens – p2p Foundation
- INEQUALITY, UNCOUNTED | Alex Cobham – Tax Justice Network
- THE INEFFICIENCY OF INEQUALITY | Daniel Altman – NYU Stern
- IS CAPITALISM UNFAIR? | Chris MacDonald – Ryerson University
- THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY | Kevin Carson – Center for a Stateless Society
- TOWARDS RENOUNCING PERSONAL PRIVATIZATION | Nicholas Archer – Middlesex County College
- THE INEQUALITY OF WILDNESS AND THE NECESSITY OF WILDNESS FOR EQUALITY | Megan Hollingsworth – Extinction Witness
- THE STICKINESS OF INJUSTICE | Jennifer Reft – reftpt
- NOBLE FICTIONS AND SACRED TEXTS | Paul Fidalgo – Center for Inquiry
- THE VOICES THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN: MAINTAINING CHOICE IN THE AGE OF THE ALGORITHM | John C. Havens – johnchavens.com
- THE EMPATHY DEFICIT: WHY THE INEQUALITY CRISIS IS ALSO A CRISIS OF EMPATHY | Robin Cangie – robinoula
- BILLIONAIRES WITH DRONES: FROM OLIGARCHY TO NEOMEDIEVALISM | Frank A. Pasquale – University of Maryland
- WHAT SHOULD THE WORLD LEARN FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA? | Patrick Iber – University of Texas at El Paso
- OCCUPY SANDY AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM | Sam Knight – The District Sentinel
- THE “PLACE OF BIRTH” LOTTERY | David Kaib – American University & Chris Oestereich – WPC
- INEQUALITY AND THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE | Scott Santens – scottsantens.com
- THE AGE OF INEQUALITY: CAUSES, DISCONTENTS, AND A RADICAL WAY FORWARD | Jason Hickel – LSE & Alnoor Ladha – The Rules
- TWENTIETH CENTURY SOLUTIONS WON’T WORK FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY INEQUALITY | David O. Atkins – Washington Monthly
- THE STATE OF AFFAIRS: HEADING FROM BAD TO WORSE | Adnan Al-Daini – Foreign Policy Journal
- THE TRAGEDY OF OUR MIDDLE CLASS | Peter Barnes – peter-barnes.org
- POST-SCARCITY ECONOMICS: WHY ARE SOME PUNDITS AND ECONOMISTS STILL ENAMORED OF AUSTERITY? | Tom Streithorst – LARB
- INCOME INEQUALITY: WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT, AND WHAT’S NOT | F. Spagnoli – Cosmologically Insignificant
- TURMOIL & TRANSITION | Harold Jarche– jarche.com
- KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND A POTENTIAL SHIFT IN SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY | Jon Husband– Wirearchy
- THE QUESTION OF INEQUALITY: A VIEW FROM INDIA | Akhila Vijayaraghavan – The Green Den
- WHAT YOU KNOW IS BASED ON WHO YOU KNOW | Deborah Mills-Scofield– mills-scofield.com
- INEQUALITY IS ABOUT THE POOR, NOT ABOUT THE RICH | Miles Kimball– University of Michigan
- TO TACKLE EXTREME POVERTY, WE MUST TAKE ON EXTREME INEQUALITY | Nick Galasso – Oxfam & Gawain Kripke – Oxfam
- ADDRESSING WEALTH EQUALITY WITH INVESTING SOLUTIONS FROM NATURE, NURTURE, AND SCIENCE | Rosalinda Sanquiche –Ethical Markets
- THE LOGIC OF STUPID POOR PEOPLE: STATUS, POVERTY AND GATEKEEPING | Tressie McMillan Cottom – Virginia Commonwealth University
- POOR CHOICES | Melonie Fullick – York University
- THE PARTICIPATION GAP | Devin Stewart – Carnegie Council
- GETTING THE FRAME RIGHT | KoAnn Skrzyniarz – Sustainable Brands
- THE FIRST JOB CREATOR | Adam Kotsko – Shimer College
- LIFE IN THE TREETOPS: A CHOICE OF CHASTENING PRIVATION OR DEBASING PROSPERITY | Chris Oestereich – WPC