Econ 101: Why learn about economic inequality? Professor Homa Zarghamee explores issues tied to wealth distribution and explains how economics translates into policies that affect people’s lives.

Even a wealth tax isn't enough: It's time for an income tax based on economic inequality A market-based solution to inequality: A punitive tax on the wealthy that goes away when inequality is reduced.

Extreme economic inequality, whether it matters as such or “merely” for its effects, is pernicious. It threatens to transform us from a democracy into a plutocracy, and it makes a mockery of ...

And his new book does an excellent job explaining why — it's an angry, powerful look at the economic inequality that's been brought into sharp relief by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We know that the COVID pandemic has increased economic inequality around the world - here’s how children understand, and respond to, other people having much more than others.

Our research suggests that’s because economic inequality is higher still in China than in the United States: The income ratio between the top and bottom fifth of households exceeds 9.5.

But spending power gives a different picture. Still bad, but not as bad. The richest 1 percent of 40- to 49-year-olds in the United States own 29.1 percent of their age cohort’s net wealth, but ...

Universal Basic Income (UBI) has frequently been discussed as a potential solution to economic inequality in an increasingly automated and AI-driven world. Alternatives like Universal Basic ...

What I’d ask Sir Angus Deaton. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton Published in October 2023 Professor Deaton (Angus, if I can be so bold to be ...

The cover of "An End to Inequality" and author Jonathan Kozol. (Courtesy) On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes ...