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Biographical note: Pierre Rosanvallon,Collège de France andL'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself.