The president has pitched his trade policies at workers who feel left behind by globalization. But that doesn’t mean trade ...

Overhauling ageing power grids, low carbon systems and nuclear are some of the options African countries are adopting ...

Global tariff disparities cost US manufacturers billions in lost sales annually. The administration's "Fair and Reciprocal ...

IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur researchers have shown that night-time light patterns from satellites can reveal economic ...

But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.

Wealth inequality by race remains staggeringly high, but it has gradually declined throughout the pandemic. This is different from the experience of the Great Recession, when after 2007 the ...

The idea that inequality needs to be reduced now almost goes without saying. I agree – but my training as a cognitive scientist warns me we should be careful how we go about it.

Professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business discusses the U.S. tax code’s effect on wealth inequality and how race has shaped the distribution of wealth.

“Inequality so mimics poverty in our minds that the United States of America . . . has a lot of features that better resemble a developing nation than a superpower,” he writes.

But even as inequality has risen, the federal system has become less progressive and therefore less able to reduce that inequality. In 1979 the richest 1 percent of Americans paid 37 percent of ...