Inequality

Australia is among the richest countries in the world, ranked fifth in terms of household wealth on a country-by-country basis, with average wealth per capita rising above US$50,000, according to a ...

This article is adapted from the book “Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of ...

Commentary  We are bombarded regularly with narratives touting the ravaging effects of income inequality in capitalist societies. For many, inequality ...

Commentary Barack Obama called it “the defining issue of our time.” The widely quoted but rarely read author ...

TOKYO—Japan's stock market has surged and luxury cars are selling fast in Tokyo after eight years of economic ...

Commentary It's easy for conservatives to believe that progressives leading the woke revolution have put targets on their ...

Commentary Like "black criminality," "Jewish shrewdness," "Italian mafiosity," and "Irish drunkenness," "white fragility" is a racist concept. Identifying ...

Commentary America’s cultural elites have a pathological obsession with equal representation (meaning equal outcomes) in many areas of ...

OTTAWA—Inequality is fast shaping up to be a key focus of the federal NDP policy convention as thousands ...

Commentary Back in the 1970s, the nation of Chile embarked on one of the boldest sets of free-market ...

Commentary Our constitutional republic was founded on the proposition that all men are created equal. Supporters of the ...

Commentary “All people are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights.” — John Adams ...

The class divide and inequality in the state of California are currently at levels similar to those seen ...

Commentary Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no ...

The wealth gap, or wealth inequality, is posited as a major issue of our times.

Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented economic conditions. Around the world, millions of people have lost their ...

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Commentary As we embark on a new decade, do we approach the 2020s with hope or with a ...

Thomas Piketty captured something essential in the post-Lehman mood with his study of income and wealth differentials in ...

Private debt tends to grow faster than the overall economy. As debt grows relative to GDP, inequality increases ...

CLEVELAND—Two of the country's poorest cities are talking about a merger they say could help both, though they ...

Latin America has traditionally been the world's most unequal region, but it has recently shown signs of change. ...

Democracy appears to be malfunctioning in a fast-paced world. “The concept of the Western-style democratic system is that ...

India opened to the world in 1991 with its New Economic Policy that embraced economic liberalization and privatization. ...

Blacks and whites in America are "worlds apart," says a new study on race, which has a familiar ...

Today, the world is doing a lackluster job of finding sustainable solutions to global inequality.

Labor market insecurity and inequality aren’t just about whether someone is employed or not.