The author of the book "The Working Poor", David Shipler has something to say on economics.
He puts a face on inequity.

My poverty is caused by the use of borrowed money to go to law school and then not completing a couple papers. I have ideas that are not readily reducible to a legal paper. Lawyers often think of their discipline as a whole thing that does not require outside disciplines, or at least is superior to other disciplines. It is about as weak as equating democracy with benevolent dictatorship. Much of the law has become about declaring winners and losers in the economic arena, through politics, rather than about protecting the basic process for fair competition for both economics and ideas. I am made to feel like a criminal for daring to become a lawyer. I am an economist and only find some features of law useful.