Income inequality

Women Will Inherit Trillions in the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ – What Will They Go With It? 
Insights
December 2, 2025

Women Will Inherit Trillions in the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ – What Will They Go With It? 

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The Age of Information Oligarchs
Opinion
January 16, 2025

The Age of Information Oligarchs

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What Social Science Tells Us About the Inevitability of the Filthy Rich
Public Policy
January 28, 2016

What Social Science Tells Us About the Inevitability of the Filthy Rich

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Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture
Impact
June 10, 2014

Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture

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The Formula

The Formula

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

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Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor

Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor

This is an extract from a post originally published  in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]

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