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 ...

That’s because the government’s definition of taxable income doesn’t track with true economic income, and this disconnect ...

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.

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 ...