With rents increasing faster than headline inflation, which reached 5.61 percent in February this year, those on the margins are trapped in a cycle of stagnation, often facing a difficult choice ...

Latin America’s falling wage inequality is not just due to more education, but also how technology and demand interact with a ...

On Monday, Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their research into wealth inequality between nations.

Regarding Richard Kahlenberg and Lief Lin’s op-ed “American Studies Can’t Stand Its Subject” (Jan. 23): It’s disturbing to see academics so deeply distressed about America’s progress. Their claims of ...

My latest piece for The Catalyst urges Congress to back sound market-friendly, productivity-enhancing measures that will boost worker incomes and reduce economic inequality. Even in a time of great ...

“Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar Thomas Piketty has suggested that “inequality denial is as dangerous as climate ...

Sharp increases in the minimum wage, totaling 135% since 2018, have helped Mexico reduce its poverty rate more than any other Latin American country. (Félix Márquez/Cuartoscuro) Mexico leads Latin ...

The U.S. is in the midst of an inequality crisis. Everyday American are struggling to buy groceries, pay for childcare, and keep up with their bills while billionaires’ fortunes continue to soar.

Democratic intellectuals, scrambling ahead of the 2026 midterms to curate an economic message that can stabilize the party’s weakening hold on middle-class voters and energize its drifting racial ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...