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摘要

Governments everywhere are trying to grapple with the problem of uneven growth: patterns of economic development that deepen inequality and exclude large sections of the population. This is a problem that market forces alone cannot solve. The solution requires creative fiscal management that aims to bring the marginalised into the mainstream. Uneven growth - that is, growth that disenfranchises - underpins today's movements of the alienated. Such movements tend to be radical but unreasonable: among them are Occupy Wall Street and the undercurrent of the disillusionment that brought about Brexit.