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Tag: Income inequalities

Pay as you earn
Labour politicians believe that Cedric Brown and other highly paid utility bosses will win them the next election. But has the uproar over top salaries led to any greater clarity about how much people should earn? W G Runciman offers…
W G Runciman  
November 20, 1995