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.

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

Prof. Benjamin Page, political science, Northwestern University, attributed political inequality in the United States to the legislative system and unequal representation at a lecture Monday. Page’s ...

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 ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated with an increase in the number of hours people work. This relationship ...

Justin lives! And he’s guest blogging for Ezra Klein this week. Check it out here. Yesterday he blogged about… whether or not income inequality helped cause the financial crisis. Sound familiar? In ...