A new report from Oxfam about the astounding concentration of wealth among tiny subset of the 1 percent raises the question, ‘Is inequality inevitable in human society?’
“America has achieved the distinction of being the country with the highest level of income inequality among the advanced countries,” […]
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.
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, […]
