The Founders would be horrified by these developments because they believed great wealth in politics would corrupt and ...

Economic inequality is one of our primary global challenges and is a key research topic for archaeology — Why do some ...

The distribution of wealth in the economy has attracted more and more attention among economists following a wealth boom that lasted for four decades. Between 1980 and 2019, British household ...

Average wealth levels in a community matter, but so does their unequal distribution. Inequality, especially when a community is racially diverse and spatially segregated, has been linked to ...

The controversies over Piketty’s ideas fall into two major categories: his claims about soaring income inequality in the United States and his forecast of an oligarchic future worldwide, unless a ...

Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

Today, the median 401 (k) balance for top-decile earners is about 10 times that of middle-income participants. 4 Indeed, plan ...

The Archaeology of Wealth Inequality Researchers trace the income gap back more than 11,000 years. Matthew Shaer. March 2018. Get our newsletter! ... a standard measure of wealth distribution.

Wealth inequality, which influences today's digital age, is unfortunately one of the most critical issues in global context; despite all advances in technology, healthcare or even education, the ...

The change in wealth inequality across Europe between 2008 and 2023 has been mixed across countries. According to a UBS report, it has sharply increased in some places, while showing modest declines ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that high wealth inequality in human societies over the past 10,000 years ...