We've all been bombarded in recent years with that insistence that modern inequality is high, rising, and it's going to be the death of our society if we don't do something about it. Thomas Piketty ...

Five millennia ago, wealth inequality—which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years—exploded. It has stayed constant, albeit much higher, ever since. "It's really amazing," says SFI ...

Lately, critics of the racialized maldistribution of wealth have seized on the notion of a “racial wealth gap” as a defining feature of the American political economy—and insisted that this gap has ...