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HBS Working Knowledge
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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? |
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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
September 2011 |
Inequality over the Past Century After declining in the first half of the 20th century, income inequality makes a comeback. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Rodney Ramcharan |
Inequality Is Untenable If policymakers neglect income distribution, the consequences for individuals and society can be grave. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
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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
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Morgan Housel |
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%. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unemployed in Europe European countries can take a number of steps to protect vulnerable groups from unemployment and help reduce income inequality. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
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 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 1, 2001
Michael P. Keane & Eswar S. Prasad |
Poland: Inequality, Transfers, and Growth in Transition Poland is one of the great success stories of transition. Poland's success can be attributed to its early stabilization program, the strength of its subsequent market-oriented reforms, and generous social programs... |
Reason
March 2002
Brian Doherty |
No Poor Traders According to the anti-globalization movement, the integration of the global economy is nothing more than a chance for the rich to fleece the poor. A recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that almost precisely the opposite is true... |
Finance & Development
September 2011
G. Chris Rodrigo |
The Big and the Small Picture Why economics is split into two realms. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 6, 2013
James Heskett |
Is 'Conscious Capitalism' an Antidote to Income Inequality? John Mackey, cofounder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, is no fan of big government and the "crony capitalism" he believes it fosters. His prescription is described in a new book, Conscious Capitalism, that he coauthored. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Kumhof & Ranciere |
Leveraging Inequality THE United States experienced two major economic crises over the past 100 years -- the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007. Income inequality may have played a role in the origins of both. |
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. |
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. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Emanuele Baldacci |
Financial Crises, Poverty, and Income Distribution How do financial crises affect income distribution and the poor? A recent IMF study shows that poverty rises and, in some cases, so does inequality -- underscoring the need for adequate and flexible safety nets, ideally in place before crises strike. |
Financial Advisor
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Income Gap Widest In Republican-Leaning States The gap between the rich and poor in the U.S. has been concentrated most heavily across a large swath of the South and was least apparent in the Midwest. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 8, 2014
James Heskett |
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality? Are productivity increases contributing to social inequality? At what point does inequality become a threat to democracy? |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
A Bigger Slice of a Growing Pie Developing the financial sector accelerates economic growth and can enhance income equality. |
CFO
June 15, 2012 |
Defending Finance The world would be a much poorer place without advances in finance, argues a prominent economist. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 10, 2014
April White |
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values Debate over raising the minimum wage tends to focus on costs and benefits, but economist Matthew Weinzierl argues that what really is at stake are much deeper societal values. |
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. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unequal = Indebted Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness. |
