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In this Chapter we will examine whether through the lenses of interdependence we can spot a society in which the rich are collaborating with the poor on the creation of the common good. The existence of poverty is undoubtedly a deep social wound. Can it ever be healed?
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Some solutions for economic inequality are these: Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs); Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs); loans to entrepreneurs who produce real wealth, not to financial speculators; cancel unduly inflated debts; all-labor reward programs.
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Gorga, C. (2024). Whence Poverty. In: Concordian Economics, Vol. 2. Springer Studies in Alternative Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54642-6_12
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