Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar ...

It is said that an analysis of the Kindle readers of the Piketty book revealed that a typical reader got through 26 of its ...

Capitalism is often blamed as a single problem, but the reality is more specific. We explain how wealth distribution determines who capitalism serves. When money is concentrated, outcomes become ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably ...

Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...

First of all, let me get to the bottom line the top 10% of Americans now account for nearly half of all consumer spending. Of ...

What is outdated is not the National Democratic Revolution but the political imagination of those who think South Africa can reorganise itself around market forces and institutional tidiness without ...

Despite living in one of the world’s wealthiest nations, millions of Americans remain financially vulnerable, with stark ...

The World Happiness Report suggests young people have become Canada’s unhappiest age group, a complete reversal of ...

A new study visualizes three decades of income inequality data, the most comprehensive worldwide mapping to be done at a subnational level. The results confirm worsening income inequality for areas ...

Inequality, not oppression, shapes South Africa’s racial and economic divides.Transformation aims to repair apartheid’s ...

Latin America and the Caribbean could raise GDP per capita by 11% and reduce inequality by 6% by making markets more competitive, according to a new report by the Inter-American ...