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

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

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 ...

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

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.

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 ...