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To Tackle Inequality, We Need to Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From

Thatcherite narrative on wealth creation has gone unchallenged for decades.

Laurie Macfarlane

Universal Basic Income, Racial Justice, Climate Justice

UBI can help create a broad-based collaborative security for present and future crises.

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Why Does Inequality Produce High Crime and Low Trust?

Shuffling of resources so that the worst off are lifted up and the top end is brought down can dramatically increase trust.

Daniel Nettle

Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy

What matters is not so much the level of inequality as the effect it has.

Chris Dillow

The #MMT Case for Progressive Taxes

If you’re looking to save the planet and deliver inclusive prosperity, it’s crazy to rely on deficit spending alone.

Steve Roth

Basic Income vs Guaranteed Jobs: What If We Paid Stay-At-Home Moms?

What if we just paid women for the work they already do?

Stephanie Ervin

How Universal Basic Income Solves Widespread Insecurity and Radical Inequality

Answering the four big objections from critics of UBI

Daniel Nettle

Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable

The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect.

Maia Szalavitz

A Ciênca do Fluxo explica que Desigualdade Extrema causa Colapso Econômico

Circulação é a essência de todo sistema de fluxo, sejam eles economias, ecosistemas ou organismos vivos

Sally Goerner

Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity

Today’s mountains of wealth throttle the engine of widespread wealth creation itself.

Steve Roth

Free Marketeers Defense of CEO Pay and a Rigged System is a Disservice to Free Markets

Two big facts suggest that such a system might well be inefficient.

Chris Dillow

A desigualdade está despedaçando a democracia norte-americana e matando a prosperidade

A coesão social e, em última análise, as instituições democráticas estão sendo ameaçadas pelo falso pressuposto de que a desigualdade é irrelevante.

David Alexander

The New Normal: Radical Inequality, Suffocating Debt, and Growing Job Uncertainty

Demand, secular stagnation and the vanishing middle-class.

Servaas Storm

America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People

The U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds

Lynn Parramore

The Fading American Dream: Declining Mobility and Increasing Inequality

Absolute mobility has declined sharply in US because of the growth in inequality

Raj Chetty

The Science of Flow Says Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse

Circulation represents the lifeblood of all flow-systems, be they economies, ecosystems, or living organisms.

Sally Goerner

The Science Is In: Greater Equality Makes Societies Healthier and Richer

What matters is where we stand in relation to others in our own society.

Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett

Getting Radical Might Be the Most Practical Way to Fix Inequality

Why we need more radical policies so that we don’t just repeat the debt-fueled booms all over again

Lynn Parramore

Why We Should Give Babies Seed Capital to Take Part in the Capitalist System

Baby bonds: a plan for wealth equality conservatives and liberals could love.

Lynn Parramore

Mainstream Economics Has Become a Celebration of the Wealthy Rentier Class

The One Percent have found a pressing need for the services of mainstream economists

Michael Hudson

The Root Cause of Protest: Radical Income Inequality

African Americans are heavily represented among the have-nots of this country

John Komlos

Extreme Inequality Is Not Driven by Merit, but by Rent-Seeking and Luck

Debunking the meritocratic argument on its own terms

Didier Jacobs

How Trickle-Down Economics Ruined the Economy and Helped Trump Win

The establishment was good at making big promises, but in the end, they left few crumbs on the table for the middle class

John Komlos

Finally, The Clearest Evidence That Shows How Money Shapes America’s Elections

Oversights of two generations of social scientists have weakened democracy.

Lynn Parramore

Elites Want More Competition for Everyone Except Themselves

How anti-competition is driving income inequality

Jonathan Rothwell

Productivity Is Slowing and Inequality Is Growing. Here’s What’s Causing it.

Productivity, Inequality, and Economic Rents

Jason Furman

How Finance Makes Wealth Accumulation Radically Different from the Past

Little is today beyond the reach of investment markets, from mortgages to carbon emissions, to speculation on the future performances of companies.

Eoin Flaherty

Why Trump Phenomenon Signals an Oligarchy on the Brink of a Civilization-Threatening Collapse

Oligarchies win except when society enacts effective reforms.

Sally Goerner

The Oligarchy Economy: Concentrated Power, Income Inequality, and Slow Growth

Corporate concentration exacerbates income inequality

Jordan Brennan

They Don’t Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned.

The concentration of wealth from rent-seeking

Didier Jacobs

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