Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 320 pp., $29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of ...

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements Consider first the global distribution of COVID-19 mortality itself. Using the concept of life years lost to the ...

Inequality and injustice are at the heart of what makes climate change a problem for humanity. Fairness and global justice must therefore be at the core of the solution. So argues the climate ...

More than 100 global millionaires ... Educational inequality is viewed as especially problematic because it limits opportunities for people battling poverty to find a way out.

Global financial markets gave a clear vote of ... Picture-alliance/dpa/AP Markets were always going to respond to that but they are also battling with another problem: the lack of certainty ...