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September 2011 |
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Making More Than $50 Million Per Year Income distribution gone wild. Income inequality is incredibly strong. The top 1% of earners made about as much as the bottom 48%. |
Reason
November 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Bourgeois Boom Those who fear increasing inequality should take to heart a new study that finds the middle class is expanding, gaining about 70 million people a year in an unprecedented worldwide boom. |
BusinessWeek
July 9, 2007
James Sherk |
An Upside To Inequality? Policymakers must search for ways to expand the number of jobs that can base pay on performance and allow more workers to share in the gains. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Robert Hunter Wade |
The Rising Inequality of World Income Distribution A lot is at stake in the question of whether world income distribution has become more, or less, equal over the past twenty years or so. What could cause rising inequality? What are the consequences? |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Attention, Protestors: You're Probably Part of the 1% And you probably don't even know it. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
How Bush Widened the Wealth Gap Not since the '20s has income inequality been this great. If Bush is reelected, America will continue down the path of increasing inequality in income, wealth, and health, with dangerous implications for U.S. democracy. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2000
David Moberg |
Everything you know about the new economy is wrong In California, birthplace of the high-tech boom, the wage gap is growing, setting yet another national trend... |
Reason
June 2009
Brink Lindsey |
Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Is the American Dream Dead? The American Dream is alive and well. But it won't come automatically to everyone. Only hard work, plus a change in mindset, will help the average citizen find the U.S. economy's unique paths to economic prosperity. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
David Dollar & Aart Kraay |
Trade, Growth, and Poverty How has many developing countries' increased participation in international trade affected their economic growth rates, and what implications has this had for the international distribution of income and the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
March 2008
David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
Reason
July 2006
Megan McArdle |
The Virtue of Riches Book Review: The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, by Benjamin M. Friedman, provides powerful empirical evidence against any program aimed not at increasing the country's wealth but at cutting wealth down to size. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Alicia Barcena |
Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do. |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Berg & Ostry |
Equality and Efficiency Is there a trade-off between the two or do they go hand in hand? |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Arvind Panagariya |
Growing out of Poverty Economic expansion reduces poverty by creating employment opportunities and making anti-poverty programs fiscally feasible. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Rodney Ramcharan |
Inequality Is Untenable If policymakers neglect income distribution, the consequences for individuals and society can be grave. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 4, 2012
Jim Heskett |
Income Inequality: What's the Right Amount? Inequality can serve capitalism as an incentive, but too much of it is not good for markets. What's the right amount of income disparity? |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Sitting Well on Top: The 400 Richest Americans The tiny gang that's taking over the economy. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 15, 2015 |
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax Matthew Weinzierl looks at the justifications for the United States income tax and whether it is an unfair burden or fair payment for services rendered. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dani Rodrik |
Growth Versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate |
IDB America
January 2006 |
The Elusive Quest for Equality Growth indices in Latin America are on the rise, education and health are improving, exports are climbing, institutions are becoming more democratic -- but poverty and inequality indicators refuse to budge. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Inequality over the Past Century After declining in the first half of the 20th century, income inequality makes a comeback. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Meet the 1% A look at the top 1% of earners, and trends in executive compensation. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Nora Lustig & Omar Arias |
Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises? |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Who Owns the Stock Market? Wealth inequality in America. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2010
Drake Bennett |
Commentary: The Inequality Delusion Americans think the U.S. has far more income equality than it has. They want it to be even fairer. Yet they hate the policies that would make it so. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Shang-Jin Wei |
Is Globalization Good for the Poor in China? Developing countries worry that opening up to trade with the rest of the world may make the poor poorer and the rich richer, with China sometimes cited as an example of growing income inequality. A recent IMF study, however, finds that the reality is far more complex. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Where Wealth Lives The productivity boom has made asset owners rich -- and left many wage-earners behind. |
Fast Company
Michael Grothaus |
The Internet Is Increasing Inequality, Says The World Bank In the report, issued Wednesday, the World Bank says the technological changes brought on by the Internet have not improved access to public services or increased economic opportunities as had been expected. |
