Costing the Country: Britain’s Finance Curse
More discussion of the downside of having too much finance.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction
If poverty is falling, why you should still care about what happens to inequality.
Read more...How Inequality Harms Mental Health
Economic justice goes a long way to improving mental health up and down the socioeconomic ladder.
Read more...“High End” Apartment Construction Totally Dominates, Creates Mismatch of Supply & Demand
Urban apartment development all over the US has been heavily skewed towards luxury units, even though there isn’t enough demand for all the supply.
Read more...New Study: Median Uber Driver Earnings $9.73/Hour After Conservative Assumption for Costs
More on the dismal economics of being an Uber driver.
Read more...Why the Distribution of Wealth Has More to Do With Power Than Productivity
How statistics about wealth mislead, and why that matters.
Read more...Avoiding Sepsis Death Traps: Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Sepsis is an enormous health problem in nursing homes and hospitals, unevenly distributed by income and geography
Read more...Measuring Unfair Inequality
Quelle surprise! A new study deems the US to be the leader in unfair inequality.
Read more...A Rational Backlash Against Globalization
“In a democratic society that values equality, globalization cannot survive in the long run.”
Read more...Joseph Stiglitz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Social and Economic Justice
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be in the limelight. Is she getting her political footing yet? And will she live up to her “democratic socialist” brand, or is she getting more cozy than necessary with establishment Democrats?
Read more...Workers Overdose On The Job, And Employers Struggle To Respond
Another facet of the opioid crisis: on-the-job addiction and overdoses.
Read more...How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck
Why pension funds, and retirement savers generally, are big victims of the financial crisis.
Read more...Widely-Reported Study on Uber, Lyft Driver Economics Misses Fundamental Deterioration
Once again, some Uber and Lyft data that ought to generate more questions instead gets a free pass from the press.
Read more...Here’s Why Setting a Maximum Wage for CEOs Would be Good for Everyone
CEO pay needs to be curbed, and a maximum wage is one way to do it.
Read more...How Climate Change Is Increasing Global Hunger
New bad facts on world hunger.
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