This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: The Impact of Inequality
Inequality is the difference in income between the most and worst well-off. Is this a problem? Why are there inequalities? This lists' books aim at discussing the inequality issues.
If you are interested in these intriguing connections, you may also be interested in What Poverty Means?
General Perspective
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
- Progress and Poverty by Henry George
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
U.S. Perspective
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy by Gar Alperovitz
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Russian Perspective
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
Roman Empire History
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Singapore Perspective
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
African Perspective
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
Congo Perspective
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Social Perspective
- The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
World Perspective
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
Fiction
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
