
Commentary / Japan Dec 10, 2018
Japan, look in the mirror called Germany
Japan, look in the mirror called Germany
More data exposing the U.S. income stagnation myth
Debate over wage growth must reflect solid realities, not politically convenient sound bites.
The happiest nations don't focus on growth
The world's happiest nations rank low in economic growth but high in social trust.
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.
Economist questions report that income equality is holding steady
A Hitotsubashi University professor takes issue with a new report that indicates income inequality is not getting any worse in Japan.
Economic shift leaves many Chinese adrift
The yawning gap between winners and losers is making life much harder for a government seeking to boost growth and maintain stability.
Are the poor better off than King Louis XIV?
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.
Frenchman stopped the trickle-down theory
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.
U.S. Democrats have an inequality problem
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.
Myths about economic inequality
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.
Obsessing over inequality threatens capitalism
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.