The Gating of the American Dream - The New York Times
Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the politi...
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Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the politi...
Learn about kleptocracy and its effects on government spending, power dynamics, and the economic struggles of citizens.
As AI transforms work and productivity, can abundance be shared widely—or will it deepen inequality, surveillance, and elite control?
This is the uncomfortable truth: in a free society, inequality is not merely imposed; it is continually generated by human behavior itself.
We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have simil...
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.30264: Exponent spectrum of Lorenz curves and its relation to system's heterogeneity
The latest PSPI issue examines the political psychology of economic inequality and highlights the cognitive processes that sustain high levels of inequality acr...
A blistering critique of elite media priorities, Amazon labor abuses, and the normalization of war amid rising inequality and nuclear peril.
The inequality caused by technological innovation is not a given. Technological innovation reduces inequality, not produces it. Half the species gets free telec...
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.28080: Improvement of a Hardy-Littlewood inequality and applications to the boundedness of analytic paraproducts on mixed nor...
Linking sports to childhood education leads to unequal resource distribution, according to new research.
Archaeologists found an ancient city where inequality actually went down as it grew richer.