Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited

Facebook’s initial public offering last week ‘offered’ the world another double dose of windfalls and greed. But Egypt’s elections this week may bring an IPO of a different sort, the ‘initial public offering’ of an antidote to avarice. Read more . . .

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Dedicated to the notion that our world would be considerably more caring, prosperous, and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap that divides our wealthy from everyone else.

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Tracking Inequality

Another Homerun for the Walloping Wealthy
March 31, 2012

How Inequality Hurts

Wealthy of the World, Unite — and Party!
May 6, 2012

Executive Pay

Will CEOs Outlast Our ‘Shareholder Spring’?
May 13, 2012

Defective Enterprises

Remembering the Moment Our CEOs Dug In
August 29, 2011

Taxing Progressively

So Much Tax Evasion, So Little Accountability
April 22, 2012

Alternate Approaches

Do We Need ‘Student Loans’ for Billionaires?
October 15, 2011

Good Reads

New

Why Greater Equality Makes Us Stronger

The Spirit LevelBy every measure that matters, relatively equal nations outperform nations where income and wealth concentrate at the top. This powerful new book explores these contrasts — and explains them.

Notable

How Our Inequality Limits Our Lives

This American Library Association “outstanding title” of the year explores the price we pay for massive inequality. Now available for reading online.

Classic

Understanding Our Acquisitive Society

Acquisitive SocietyBack in the 1930s, a University of Chicago project set out to list western civilization’s greatest books. Only one book by a living author, this one, made the cut.

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Quote of the Week

“Dramatically higher tax rates on the top 1 percent would produce enormous revenues, improve the distribution of income, and most likely lead to greater economic growth.”
Alicia Munnell, director, Boston College Center for Retirement Research, High Tax Rates for the Wealthy, SmartMoney, May 18, 2012

Stat of the Week

Something to occupy your mind next time you’re filling up your gas tank: Last year’s highest-paid CEO, new data from GMI Ratings show, appears to have been ConocoPhillips CEO J. J. Mulva. His total compensation: $154.7 million.

Greed at a Glance

Crime fiction takes on inequality in Greece . . . A national health service or a national wealth service? . . . How about a $4.5 million renovation job for a single CEO suite?

Executive Pay Scorecard

Top media outlets and business researchers annually release compensation surveys that detail executive pay levels over the preceding year. These surveys seldom sample the same corporations — or measure pay the exact same way — and, consequently, almost always generate somewhat different results. We sum up the latest top national and regional survey results here.

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