A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated ...

Doing “everything right” is still not enough for black and Latino households to accumulate as much wealth as their white counterparts. To effectively oppose these policies, and to push for better ...

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.

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent weeks, the richest 10% of the global population now receive 53% of all ...

What caused the Great Recession? This question, not surprisingly, is proving divisive. Just today, The Huffington Post reported that the Republican members of the congressionally-appointed Financial ...

In recent decades, income inequality in the United States has increased sharply, and the novel coronavirus crisis seems to have exacerbated the problem. Some blame tax cuts for creating billionaires ...

Income inequality in the developed world is at its highest level for the past half century, according to a report published last December by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

I think spiking income inequality causes recessions and that means we're in for a doozy. Before getting into that, what is a recession? It’s two or more quarters of shrinking gross domestic product ...

With an increasing share of the world’s wealth in the hands of its top earners, a savings glut is pushing asset prices up and interest rates down. By Neil Irwin Traders on the floor of the New York ...

The connection between class inequality and asset price bubbles is well established. That is, the gap between the very rich and everyone else tends to widen around the same time that over-investment ...

The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-being. By Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Allen Lane; 352 pages; £20. To be published in America ...

More than 50 years ago, riots tore through many U.S. cities, prompting national scrutiny of the root causes. Yet a half-century later, says new research, a key contributor to the social upheaval of ...