Should the fight against inequality be the Democrats' defining cause? The party's rising tribe of left-wing economic populists — headed up by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.

Faced with the collapse of their argument that income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s favorite economists have come back with an even more audacious claim.

A long piece in The Economist about inequality research (“Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality”) ends with this question: “Will this flurry of new research change people’s minds about ...

Yes, but the answer is less obvious than you might think. By Samuel Scheffler Dr. Scheffler is a professor of philosophy. It is impossible to ignore the stark disparities of income and wealth that ...

There is a simple theory of inequality in which rich people have nearly all the wealth and income, and do nearly all the spending, while poor people struggle along with the minimum of those things ...

Evidence from survey research suggests that most people in the United States recognize economic inequality as a social problem in our society. And many of us are willing to acknowledge that ...

The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said on Friday. The group, which includes former ...