The rise of globalization and income inequality are two defining trends of our time. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the volume of global trade has increased dramatically, and in the past few ...

The Serbian-American economist describes an era in which neoliberalism weakens in favor of a 'national market liberalism' in a multipolar world. "Politics reacts later than the economy, so I am not ...

In the second of two articles, Unigestion’s Florian Ielpo, Stéphane Dutu and Jérémy Gatto consider how markets are viewing the rise of populism and what it means for investors. By Florian Ielpo, ...

Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it ...

Inequality remains on the top of the policy priority list for most countries in the world. Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar on inequality, recently delivered a lecture titled “Recent changes in the ...

Income inequality has been talked about and written about for decades but, while universally decried as “a bad thing” and steadily getting worse, its causes and consequences were widely misunderstood ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...

In one of his first public statements after his election, Pope Leo XIV likened 21st century artificial intelligence to the great industrialization of the late 19th century. He called AI the issue of ...

The World Inequality Lab is calling for taxes targeting billionaires and fossil fuel dependency.