Wealth Concentration

The interests of the market -- and the wealthy elites and corporate interests that have taken control of it -- generally don't align with the interests of the general public....

Wealth's current tilt to the top sometimes seems almost eternal. But can our economy ‘self-correct’? A provocative new paper out of the developed world's official research agency contemplates our tomorrow....

A leading conservative academic is charging that critics of America's top-heavy distribution of income are missing the bigger picture. In the process, he's only fogging that picture up. By Sam...

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....

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...

To really take on grandiosity and greed, a new report from a prestigious CEO pay watchdog suggests, we may need to shove onto the global political stage the notion of...

The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership....

Workers in the United States don't make double what workers make in Japan or Switzerland. Why should U.S. CEOs routinely make double — and often much more — than Japanese...

Don’t blame unmarried mothers for child poverty. Look instead to an unequal economy loaded with low-wage jobs. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Over the past couple of decades, a number of...