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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side?

Updated: October 26 2011,
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A new Congressional Budget Office analysis supports the idea that income inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades. As part of his Making Sen$e series on economic inequality, Paul Solman talks to libertarian law professor Richard Epstein, who argues that wealth inequality acts as a driving force for innovation.