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.

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 ...

The message from William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was stark. “For a growing number of United States ...

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This ...

Technology advances will create growing inequality between the upper and lower classes that could spark "envy and hatred" of the wealthy, billionaire chairman Johann Rupert said at the Financial Times ...

Prof. Benjamin Page, political science, Northwestern University, attributed political inequality in the United States to the legislative system and unequal representation at a lecture Monday. Page’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Massachusetts economics professor Gerald Epstein argued that the U.S. needs to reform its financial system to better serve the needs of ...

Stick this in your blender: Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. The title comes ...

Justin lives! And he’s guest blogging for Ezra Klein this week. Check it out here. Yesterday he blogged about… whether or not income inequality helped cause the financial crisis. Sound familiar? In ...