From Shanghai to San Francisco, the top-of-mind subject is inequality. It’s even worrying the winners who gather at Davos. In 2018, the World Economic ... question is, do we have that time?

In 2024, billionaire wealth surged at triple the rate of 2023, and new Oxfam data shows we can ... of inequality in the U.S. and globally. Oxfam’s report released in January 2025, “Takers, Not Makers, ...

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 ...

These are of course linked to income on the household level, but in an aggregate cross-country perspective, essentially, we show that income and wealth are two different types of economic inequality .

“We wanted to be able to look ... of the early manifestations of wealth inequality around the world. The idea of using house size as a proxy for economic status may not be revolutionary ...

"I think in the long run, we're really going to need to think about how do we organize the economy, and how humans think ...

TIME asked six experts how we got here, why the problem is so urgent and so hard—and what China and the U.S. can do now to solve it Why ... security guarantees, economic and food aid and ...