February 2016 Too Much: How Much Do the Rich Deserve?

Our world’s billionaires don’t merit either their billions, the economist Didier Jacobs suggests, or the right to claim we’re somehow all living in a ‘meritocracy.’

By the Numbers: February

What Do Our Wealthiest Deserve?

Our world’s billionaires don’t merit either their billions, the economist Didier Jacobs suggests, or the right to claim we’re all somehow living in a ‘meritocracy.’

By the Numbers: January

Taxing the Ultra Rich

January 2016 Too Much: A New Look at a Forgotten Egalitarian

In our deeply unequal times, historian Edward O’Donnell reminds us, the life of the 19th century’s most important critic of concentrated wealth remains as relevant as ever.

A New Look at a Great Egalitarian

In our deeply unequal times, historian Edward O’Donnell reminds us, the life of the 19th century’s most important critic of concentrated wealth remains as relevant as ever.

December 2015 Too Much: Inequality’s Most Pivotal Scorekeeper?

That just may be Martine Durand, the chief statistician of the developed world’s top research agency. How does she view her role and our inequality data future? Too Much asked.

Inequality’s Top Scorekeeper?

That just may be Martine Durand, the chief statistician of the developed world’s most important research agency. How does she view her role and our inequality data future? Too Much asked.

Yellow Canaries and Middle-Aged White Men

Startling new data from the National Academy of Sciences suggest that extreme inequality may be exacting a much steeper price — on our health — than we’ve up to now expected.

November 2015 Too Much: How Taxes Keep Wealth White

From the days of slavery to the 21st century rebirth of the poll tax, our tax system has been concentrating wealth at African-American expense, as legal scholar Andre Smith is documenting.