Chuck Collins

Conservative economists tried to embarrass Thomas Piketty at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Boston. They ended up embarrassing only themselves.

As protesters march through our cities, a new study dramatizes that at the heart of our racially fractured society is a hidden system of racial wealth inequalities. The marches in...

A tax on inherited wealth could eliminate student debt while reducing growing inequality. Over a decade ago, I got a call from Bill Gates. Not the Bill Gates you’re probably...

Don’t feel bad if you were busy and missed the buzz around the new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It’s not every day that a 685-page book about wealth...