Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

The message from William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was stark. “For a growing number of United States ...

A scientific certainty put to the testFor decades, a consensus seemed established in the scientific literature: economic inequality harms the ...

Economic liberalisation brought growth, but it also delivered deep and accelerating inequality. In concrete terms, these ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...

We like stories of rags to riches, and believe our children ought to end up better off than we are. John Steinbeck famously wrote that socialism never took root in the United States because we’re all ...

Inequality is created by, among other factors, where you are born and live. Alongside this, income, assets, and access to education and healthcare differ among and between populations. These ...

Bermuda has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality in a very short period of time. According to the Tax Justice Network, the average household income in 1993 was $65,676, while median income ...

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 ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...