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Seth D. Kaplan

Seth D. Kaplan

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Seth D. Kaplan is a professorial lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of a forthcoming book on the future of human rights in varied cultural contexts.

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    Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality?

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    The view that central-bank interest-rate policy can and should be the main driving force behind greater income equality is stupefyingly naive, no matter how often it is stated. Central banks can do more to address the inequality problem, but they cannot do everything.

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