In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

There are a few facts that will always get a reaction of confusion and disbelief. No one knows where eels come from. The Renaissance began in an Italy with no tomatoes. Global inequality is falling.

There has never been a society without inequality and yet it’s perennially controversial to reference iniquity between rich and poor nations. But in the contentious debate over extending the Bush era ...

Lycoming College associate professor of archaeology and anthropology Jessica Munson, Ph.D., recently worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions from more ...

THE POINT: The world’s assets are piling up in the hands of the few as growth is built on widening gaps. That’s not just unfair — it’s economically unsustainable. This year’s global wealth report by ...

News World G20 taskforce calls for global panel to tackle ‘inequality emergency’ Nov. 3, 2025 Updated Mon., Nov. 3, 2025 at 5:46 p.m. A woman walks at the Cape Town International Convention Centre ...

The global economy needs to be fundamentally reordered to prioritise the needs of ordinary people rather than the “frivolous ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New research suggests a more nuanced reality. The updated Inequality of Human Progress Index assesses how the pandemic affected progress toward a more ...

Private jets are up to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes – and are now being used to escape escalating conflict ...