The National Basketball Association has an income inequality problem. The highest-paid players make upwards of $20 million per season, while the lowest-paid ones make a measly half a million. In the ...

For many Americans, the national debt—now approaching $30 trillion—is an afterthought that must always take a backseat to the social and economic problems of the day. Now, it's the COVID-19 pandemic ...

This article originally was published on The Conversation. In a recent issue of The Economist, President Barack Obama set out four major economic issues that his successor must tackle. As he put it: " ...

There is a broad consensus that the impacts of climate change are not experienced equally. According to the World Bank, “The poorest and most vulnerable people bear the brunt of climate change impacts ...

Capitalism has a public relations problem. While many will grudgingly admit that capitalism, the economic system based on private property and free trading, yields faster rates of economic growth, ...

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Nigeria's inequality problem is often framed as a failure of policy. Yet it is more accurately a feature of how power works. What appears, on the surface, as an economic imbalance is rooted more ...

If you're like most Americans, you get the bulk of your cardio from marching in—or fleeing from—pitchfork-wielding mobs. These days, those mobs tend to be chasing oligarchs with their fancy castles ...