Interesting reflections on history, equality and inequality
Tag: inequality (page 1 of 3)
Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income countries (LICs) and people are falling further behind. Worse, the number of poor and hungry has been increasing again after declining for decades.
World Inequality Still Rising Despite Some Convergence | Inter Press Service
and why the US is not the greatest country in the world
There are good reasons why they do not want it!
and how to tackle?
Inequalities unmasked: disparities across the EU (socialeurope.eu)
Inequality has been falling across Europe. But a backlash driven by fiscal ‘discipline’ and ‘competitiveness’ could reverse that.
In difficult times, social cohesion has improved (socialeurope.eu)
Why inequality must go, fifteen years after Wilkinson & Pickett’s classical
From the UK, a New Reminder Why Inequality Must Go – Inequality.org
On Labour’s ‘deselection’ of a candidate who fights inequality …
There is a growing attack on the entire idea of redistribution, with social benefits being decried as freebies even as the super-rich are praised as wealth creators.
An article by Jean Drèze
Who Is Afraid of Redistribution? | Economic and Political Weekly (epw.in)
Inequality was traditionally the central concern of economists—until it wasn’t. It may be time to re-read the classics.
Exactly what Branco Milanovic did!
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