The debate in Congress is over how to help the overall economy, but there is an underlying issue highlighted by the Occupy Wall Street protests. It's the question of the gap between rich and poor - ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

Suddenly the whole world is talking about income inequality. But as this debate goes on, it is beginning to look as though the thing is being misconceived. The income-inequality debate is confusing ...

A long piece in The Economist about inequality research (“Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality”) ends with this question: “Will this flurry of new research change people’s minds about ...

In 2013, President Obama called inequality ‘the defining challenge of our time’. But could this gap between the rich and poor have benefits for the economy? World Finance interviews Thomas Piketty, ...