No one who is interested in an equitable society can fail to be irked by unfairness in wealth distribution – but it is not unexpected One of the main issues raised by the Occupy demonstrators is the inequitable distribution of wealth. Their slogan focuses on the extreme difference between the richest and the poorest: " We are the 99% ," say the banners and T-shirts, pointing out that 1% of the world's population has somehow clawed its way to disproportionate money and power. Time to do something about this unnatural distribution, no? The economist Edward N Wolff , of New York University...