I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Widening disparities in income and wealth both within and across countries have become among the most pressing global challenges of our time. As inequalities deepen, the call for coordinated ...

Or if that's too ambitious a goal then how about how to reduce inequality in America? Now, I have to admit, that inequality really isn't one of those things that I worry about very much. Poverty is, ...

Earnings inequality in America has increased since 1979 — that much we know. But why and what to do about it is murky — in part because we’re not all talking about the same group of people when we ...

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The themes of economic mobility and rising inequality will likely serve as the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address next week. In the months leading up to the speech the ...

The most potent ‘solutions’ for inequality are unpleasant. Tight labor markets shrink income inequality by causing employers to bid up the price of scarce labor, so policymakers fretting about income ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

Show values that satisfy an inequality on a set of axes by drawing the line of the corresponding equation and shading the area specified in a question. Include a dashed line for inequalities where the ...