| Sumario: | A commentary on Douglas Massey's presidential address “The Age of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century,” which was delivered at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is included in this issue. The writers argue that although Massey correctly claims that growing economic inequality is one of the pressing issues of today, his analysis pays little or no attention to the political institutions that underlie the economic trends. They supplement Massey's analysis by outlining how politics mediates between computerized production and inequality, between housing markets and residential segregation, and between the segregation of education and inequality.
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