Politicians in the US and elsewhere appeal to envy as they demand destructive wealth taxes to be levied on billionaire business owners.

Darren Walker explores inequality and democracy in 'The Idea of America' Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one of ...

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America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10% controls 69% of all wealth in the country, while the bottom half controls just 3%. Meanwhile, surging corporate profits ...

A ground-breaking research project co-led by a King's College London academic aims to understand how economic inequality is ...

Former labor secretary Robert Reich explains how the widening income gap threatens democracy. Political economist, educator, author, and former labor secretary, Robert Reich, has spent decades ...

With the right political reforms, democracies can become more inclusive, more responsive to citizens, and less responsive to the corporations and rich individuals who currently hold the purse strings.

In an upcoming article entitled “‘Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now’: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader” (Sprong et al., 2019), the authors conducted three empirical ...

Demonstrators march outside the U.S. Capitol during the Poor People's Campaign rally at the National Mall in Washington on June 23, 2018. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Economists usually gauge a country’s ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Economists usually gauge a country’s economic health by looking at its gross domestic ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nathan Meyers, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) America has never been richer. But the ...