<p>More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’</p><p>More than 1,500 academics and economists from 100-plus countries are urging global leaders to join an initiative against extreme inequality, calling current unfairness “a policy choice that can be reversed”.</p><p>Before the UN general assembly in New York next week, the experts have signed an open letter backing the International Panel on Inequali