How Inequality Hurts
Should Vanity Candidacies Have Us Worried?
A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn’t make the rest of us winners.
Move Over, Climate Change Deniers
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality’s horrific toll on our health and overall well-being.
Why Bad Things Happen to Unequal People
\Just in: new data on our staggering income gap. Just emerging: a better understanding why such gaps make economic calamities inevitable.
Guard Labor: Inequality’s Hidden Price Tag
What happens to societies that don’t share the wealth? They spend — and waste — a fortune guarding it.
‘Zero Tolerance’ on Workplace Slaughter?
Windfall rewards give CEOs an incentive to put worker lives at risk. To see all workers safe, our most recent mining tragedy reminds us, maybe we need to end those windfalls.
Wall Street’s Protection Racket: Still Rolling
To really reform big bank behavior, we need to scuttle the pay system that ‘entitles’ Wall Streeters to however much loot they can grab.
Why Health Care Matters Less than We Think
The British already have universal health care. So why do average life expectancies in the UK vary so dramatically by neighborhood? A new UK blue-ribbon commission has some answers to questions that Americans ought to be asking.
Must the Rich Rock On Forever?
Economists tend to add more to the aggravations of everyday life than explain them. Not this economist. A review of Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal by Moshe Adler.
A Rich University's Mad Dash to Get Richer
<p>Investing recklessness at Harvard is making ‘the best and the brightest’ look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.</p>
The Great Recession’s Phony New ‘Silver Lining’
Hard times, a rash of new media reports now assures us, are significantly narrowing the gap between the rich and everybody else. So why are so many super rich still smiling?
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