Economics student Cooper Thelen breaks down the major causes of economic inequality and his thoughts on how to address it.

Prof. Benjamin Page, political science, Northwestern University, attributed political inequality in the United States to the legislative system and unequal representation at a lecture Monday. Page’s ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific ...

What caused the Great Recession? This question, not surprisingly, is proving divisive. Just today, The Huffington Post reported that the Republican members of the congressionally-appointed Financial ...

A Duke professor sought to answer one simple question in his lecture for Cornellians: “Why is the U.S. government an upper-class club?” As the second speaker in a lecture series exploring “the ...

Income inequality is a natural feature of a dynamic, prosperous society such as ours. When politicians and the media use terms such as “distribution” of income or wealth, it implies that someone from ...

Justin lives! And he’s guest blogging for Ezra Klein this week. Check it out here. Yesterday he blogged about… whether or not income inequality helped cause the financial crisis. Sound familiar? In ...

Last week, the Office for National Statistics published data showing that income inequality in the UK has fallen to ...

The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz will continue to receive funding through the German Excellence Strategy for another seven years. The German ...

India's rich and poor divide is getting deeper than ever. Hardik Joshi, a financial analyst, says it's even worse now than during British colonial times. Joshi, an economic analyst, shared strong ...