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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. After a terrible fire killed many workers in Bangladesh apparel factories, European retailers Primark and C&A worked to establish long-term compensation funds for victims and their families. Yes, Switzerland. Take an Interest.

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

The convulsions of violence that have wracked London and other British cities seem to have exploded overnight, but I'd bet those of us living here know: that fuse has been long burning. The eye of this perfect storm is extreme income inequality that makes the Glided Age look Leninist: London's the most unequal city in the developed world.