What caused the Great Recession? This question, not surprisingly, is proving divisive. Just today, The Huffington Post reported that the Republican members of the congressionally-appointed Financial ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

Technology advances will create growing inequality between the upper and lower classes that could spark "envy and hatred" of the wealthy, billionaire chairman Johann Rupert said at the Financial Times ...

Wealth inequality is one of the primary causes of unhappiness in developed or industrialized nations (along with rising healthcare costs and an unhealthy work-life balance). On the other hand, lower ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Massachusetts economics professor Gerald Epstein argued that the U.S. needs to reform its financial system to better serve the needs of ...

Stick this in your blender: Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. The title comes ...

“Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar Thomas Piketty has suggested that “inequality denial is as dangerous as climate ...