income inequality

Oxfam shouldn't underestimate the power of "big philanthropy" in helping the world's poorest people.

Capitalism clearly doesn't work for everyone, but Louis Kelso's vision of social capitalism just might.

The yawning gap between winners and losers is making life much harder for a government seeking to boost growth and maintain stability.

To argue that common folk live better now than royalty did in earlier times is a fatuous and politically inspired attempt to minimize the issue of income inequality.

A book by a Frenchman known for his now infamous chart of income inequality in the U.S. dominates the media like no other work of economics since the writings of Milton Friedman or even John Maynard Keynes.

America's Democratic Party might want to shift its tack of making income inequality the centerpiece of this year's election campaign in the face of census data showing that income inequality is higher in Democratic districts.

True, the gap between the rich and the poor is enormous, wider than most Americans would wish, but this reality has made economic inequality a misleading intellectual fad, blamed for many of our problems.

It's wrong to see income gains at the top as proof of U.S. capitalism's ingrained wickedness, or to forget that clumsy intervention might affect everybody else's income.