Tag: Income inequality

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

By Eoin Flaherty | Published: January 28, 2016

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?'

Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: June 10, 2014

“America has achieved the distinction of being the country with the highest level of income inequality among the advanced countries,” prefaced economist Joseph Stiglitz last month as he delivered the 2014 Moynihan Lecture. “Unfortunately the United States has been a trendsetter; as others have followed America’s lead they too have increasing inequality.” And this this […]

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The Formula

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: January 24, 2013

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.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Research | Also tagged CIA, Economic Justice, Gini Coefficient, Gini Index, income, Inequality, Jon Stewart, Namibia, Nigeria, Occupy Wall St., Research Index, Social Science, Statistics, World Bank | Leave a comment

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

By Harvard Magazine | Published: January 11, 2011

This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some […]

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

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

Listen to Joseph Stiglitz’s Moynihan Lecture

The Formula

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

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