World Bank Chooses Wrong Indicator
In a world with rising inequality, the World Bank should do a better job of measuring 'shared prosperity.' By Nick Galasso This piece is an adaptation of Nick’s recent article...
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Piketty’s Model of Inequality and Growth in Historical Context, Part 2
Many individuals helped construct neoclassical economics, often with financial support from the robber barons and their successors. French economist Thomas Piketty has proposed a grand model of inequality and growth....
Thomas Piketty’s Model of Inequality and Growth in Historical Context, Part I
Piketty is not the first to propose a grand model of inequality and growth. In Thomas Piketty’s doomsday model, slowing of growth in the twenty-first century will cause an inexorable...
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
A key keeper of the free-market fundamentalist flame wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution. By Sam Pizzigati [caption...