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
Browsing: Inequality
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 very engine of 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
