$29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of income, Branko Milanovic has made a name for himself as an innovative ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. Yet, according to the World Inequality Database, in almost all nations, the richest 10 percent hold ...

Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle in extreme poverty. Within-country ...

This growing inequality is no accident. For too long, corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged the system at the expense of ordinary working families, extracting endless wealth, resources, ...

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 ...

We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human rights and enables private actors to harm communities, workers, and the environment. Our work is driven ...

For decades, ancient Greece, Rome, or medieval Europe have been used as models for how inequality developed. But the global view tells a more diverse story. Human agency—how people choose to ...

Despite domestic and global efforts to narrow the gap, inequality between the wealthiest one percent and the remaining 99 continues to rise According to a recent Oxfam report, the gap between the ...

Jack Royston is Newsweek's Chief Royal Correspondent based in London, U.K. He reports on the British royal family—including King Charles III, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and ...