An Embarrassment of Riches and a Surplus of Shame: Can the Rich be Poor?
By Mark Peacock, This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for exam
2018 Conference on The Global Knowledge of Economic Inequality: The Measurement of Income and Wealth Distribution since 1945
German Historical Institute London Date: 15-17 November 2018 Closing date: 28 February 2018 Economic inequality has
New Book: The Mismeasure of Wealth – Essays on Marx and Social Form
by Patrick Murray. From Haymarket Books: A wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with Marx’s key insights
New Book: The Color of Money – Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
By Mehrsa Baradaran. From Harvard University Press: When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black
Inequality Update: Who Gains When Income Grows?
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva Since the 1980s, economic recoveries in the United States have been delivering the vast majori
Podcasts on Race and Wealth
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New book by Piero Ferri: Aggregate Demand, Inequality and Instability
From Edward Elgar: This book studies the relationships between aggregate demand, inequality and instability. It ext
New book by Hassan Bougrine: The Creation of Wealth and Poverty – Means and Ways.
From Routledge: There is a failure of governments to provide the citizens of developing countries with the necessary i
EPI Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county
By Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in m
Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, delivered the following testimony before the Democra
Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?
By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee
Ernesto Screpanti on Karl Marx on wage labour – From natural abstraction to formal subsumption
From the abstract: Marx develops two different theories of the employment relationship: in one it results from a contr
Patrick Bond on the harsh realities about South Africa that the World Bank dare not speak
By Patrick Bond The World Bank’s South Africa poverty line is $2.5/day, which was R15.75/day (R473/month) in 2011, the
Emma Dowling on Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy
By Emma Dowling Taking care in order to be taken care of. That was the deal of heteronormative love. Underpinning the rom
James K. Boyce on Flint Water Crisis: Let Them Eat Pollution?
By James K. Boyce, The tragic crisis in Flint, Michigan, where residents have been poisoned by lead contamination, is n