Curbing the power and scale of this sector would help with both inequality and financial stability. And perhaps the time has come for a Piketty-style tax on global capital, which would of course ...

It also sheds light on the impact of taxes, transfers, and subsidies on poverty and inequality in 94 countries ... has been unprecedented in scale. This chapter is a first look at the lessons learned ...

Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing about the trend deflects attention from the central issue, which is the sheer magnitude of inequality and poverty on a world ...