Inequality is now a visibility problem The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

While much of the economics profession spent the weekend in Philadelphia discussing Larry Summers’s “secular-stagnation” thesis and other issues at the annual meeting of the American Economic ...

Crises are colliding in a way that is testing the foundations of the advanced economies that once set the rules of global ...

Today's hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It's a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

The planet’s richest 1% have stolen all the money. That’s pretty much the bottom line suggested in a new report on inequality from Oxfam, the international anti-poverty organization. (And just in time ...

UNDP report warns AI benefits may favor wealthy nations without intervention. Lack of skills, power and internet access risks leaving millions behind. AI offers potential gains in farming, health care ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

It used to be that the battle to overcome inequality was about money. It was about helping the poor get better jobs so they could access a larger slice of the economic pie. What if that approach to ...