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Why the world after coronavirus could be a lot fairer

The post-coronavirus world could look like the post-war world, argues Merryn Somerset Webb – with wealth redistributed from capital to labour, and from rich to poor.

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by: Merryn Somerset Webb
14 Apr 2020

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