Both the UN and several Nobel laureates have said that political and economic inequality is a driver of high carbon emissions ...

The U.S. stock market generates enormous wealth, but that wealth concentrates heavily at the top. What if it didn’t? What if every American owned an equal share of publicly traded companies? It’s a ...

Both adults and children tended to choose distribution by equal-outcome under all conditions, showing that most people prefer to share resources so that everyone ends up with the same amount. This ...

Bernie Sanders talks about economic inequality all the time, and it’s a message that resonates. You don’t need to be a socialist to worry about the divide between rich and poor in America. Many ...

McMahon is the chair of the department of history and the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor at Dartmouth College. He the author of the recently published Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea ...

It’s a wild thought exercise and one we were curious about. And well, it turns out, when you dive deeper, the math reveals just how much wealth inequality permeates this part of American finances. The ...

Both the UN and several Nobel laureates have said that political and economic inequality is a driver of high carbon emissions. The argument is that more democratic societies – where wealth, power and ...