Imagine society as a ladder with ten rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

The Congress party claims India faces a significant social and economic crisis due to inequality. Jairam Ramesh alleges the ...

Rather than going straight into a government pot, investing wealth into specific initiatives that effect real change and give ...

An excerpt from The Democratic Marketplace on “predistribution” and freedom.

Despite the strength of the U.S. economy, the gap between rich and poor Americans is increasing. The wealthiest 1% of Americans have more than five times as much wealth as the bottom 50%, according to ...

The beliefs someone holds and the environment in which they live and work shape how much economic inequality people report seeing, according to new research from the School of Management. Two studies ...

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 was caused in part by economic inequality. To avoid a repetition, investors should work to mitigate the risk that inequality poses.

Raising the minimum wage can help address economic inequality, but support has declined as the gap between rich and poor has increased, according to new research from the School of Management.

So, perhaps the issue isn’t inequality itself but the degree of it. In terms of economic prosperity,about 61 percent of Americans believe there is “too much” economic inequality, with the wealth gap ...

Two-thirds of Americans see economic inequality as a major problem, rivaling climate change and gun violence, per 2020 Pew research. A majority of both Republicans and Democrats say businesses have a ...

Remember this item (from Heather Mac Donald’s 2023 book “ When Race Trumps Merit ”) during cloudy election-year campaign rhetoric about the nature and importance of economic inequality.

Economic inequality is a broad term that includes a handful of different areas of study, including income inequality, wealth inequality, and consumption inequality.