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Japan, look in the mirror called Germany

Commentary / Japan Dec 10, 2018

Japan, look in the mirror called Germany

by Kuni Miyake

Germany today reflects Japan's future.

More data exposing the U.S. income stagnation myth

Commentary / World Dec 10, 2018

More data exposing the U.S. income stagnation myth

by Robert Samuelson

Debate over wage growth must reflect solid realities, not politically convenient sound bites.

The happiest nations don't focus on growth

Commentary / World Mar 21, 2017

The happiest nations don't focus on growth

by Leonid Bershidsky

The world's happiest nations rank low in economic growth but high in social trust.

Editorials Jan 18, 2017

Oxfam rings alarm bells

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

Commentary / World Dec 13, 2016

Capitalism is for everyone?

by David Howell

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

National / Social Issues Sep 16, 2016

Economist questions report that income equality is holding steady

by Tomohiro Osaki

A Hitotsubashi University professor takes issue with a new report that indicates income inequality is not getting any worse in Japan.

Commentary / World Sep 2, 2016

Economic shift leaves many Chinese adrift

by Christopher Balding

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

Commentary / World Jan 26, 2015

Are the poor better off than King Louis XIV?

by Barry Ritholtz

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.

Commentary / World May 10, 2014

Frenchman stopped the trickle-down theory

by Barry Ritholtz

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.

Commentary Apr 12, 2014

U.S. Democrats have an inequality problem

by Francis Barry

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.

Commentary / World Feb 10, 2014

Myths about economic inequality

by Robert J. Samuelson

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.

Commentary / World Aug 3, 2013

Obsessing over inequality threatens capitalism

by Clive Crook

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.

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