Narratives of Inequality

Abstract

In September 2010, a full year before protestors occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City, Timothy Noah wrote a monumental ten-part series for Slate on the rise of economic inequality in the United States. The series earned Noah the 2011 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism and has now been updated, expanded, and published in book form as The Great Divergence. The book has created buzz, including reviews in the New Yorker , the New York Review of Books , the New York Times (weekday and Sunday), the Nation , and the American Prospect .