What caused the Great Recession? This question, not surprisingly, is proving divisive. Just today, The Huffington Post reported that the Republican members of the congressionally-appointed Financial ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

Income inequality is a natural feature of a dynamic, prosperous society such as ours. When politicians and the media use terms such as “distribution” of income or wealth, it implies that someone from ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. While South Africa is somewhat exceptional, income inequality within countries has been growing across ...