Discover the principles of economic justice, how it fosters equality, and explore actionable strategies to achieve fair ...

Oxfam's annual report at the World Economic Forum highlights global billionaire influence in politics while citing India's ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...

Economists and political activists have been issuing warnings about growing economic inequality, or the widening economic disparity between social groups, in the U.S. for years. Economic inequality ...

One of the more impressive accomplishments of the United States in recent decades is how it has achieved greater economic inequality in line with what Marx expected from a capitalist economy. There ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

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

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Rising economic inequality in many countries, especially the rich ones, in recent decades has emerged as an important topic of political debate and a major public policy concern. Widening economic ...

The way to right wrongs is to shine the light of truth on them.—Ida B. Wells “What are some barriers that those in poverty face that may impact their development?” This is a question I often ask my ...