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Frans de Waal found that capuchin monkeys strongly oppose this phenomenon in an experiment where they were fed cucumbers. (-5[1])In The Spirit Level, (10[1])Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (10[1])argued that this phenomenon “gets under the skin,” correlating with numerous negative health outcomes. (10[1])Tony Atkinson’s index of this phenomenon includes a coefficient that represents aversion to this phenomenon. The “central contradiction of capitalism,” which holds that (-5[1])r exceeds g, leads to increasing levels of this phenomenon (10[2])according to Thomas Piketty. (10[1])The size of two areas of the Lorenz Curve are compared in a measure of this phenomenon, (10[1])the Gini coefficient. (10[2])For 10 points, name this phenomenon, the disparity in outcomes between the rich and the poor. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: inequality [accept economic inequality; accept income inequality; accept wealth inequality; accept social inequality]
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