In Global Inequality, international economist Branko Milanovic offers a set of new frameworks for approaching income and wealth differences around the world and critiques of several established ones.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of the top 1 percent ...

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office on household income since 1979 reaches two stark and significant conclusions. Inequality is growing. But so are government efforts to combat it—and ...

Henderson, Rebecca, Jessica A. Gover, Aldo Sesia, and Mariana Oseguera Rodriguez. "Note on Economic Inequality (2020)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 319-071, December 2018. (Revised March ...

At least the fantastical Green New Deal attempts to address an actual problem: climate change. That’s less obviously the case with various new tax proposals meant to solve America’s “wealth inequality ...

My colleague Scott Winship has a very good piece here at Forbes concerning whether wealth inequality has actually risen in recent decades or not. If this whole discussion interests you, how it all ...

Washington Is Fighting the Wrong Battle on Health-Care Costs Mark Carney’s Failing Grade Speaker Johnson Proves the Necessity of Reviving the Nondelegation Doctrine Audio By Carbonatix Welcome to the ...

MR. DIENG: Thank you. Good morning everyone and welcome to this conference call on the release of the Staff Discussion Note: Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth by Ostry, Berg, and Tsangarides. You ...

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With the seating of the 116th Congress and the rise of progressive and liberal leaders such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, increased attention has been paid to ideas about socialism, regulations of ...

When the 1918 influenza pandemic ripped through the United States, inequality took its revenge. In the decade just before the outbreak, Progressives had worked tirelessly to narrow the gap between ...