“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Show values that satisfy an inequality on a set of axes by drawing the line of the corresponding equation and shading the area specified in a question. Include a dashed line for inequalities where the ...

Of all the figures that inequality doyen Thomas Piketty and collaborator Emmanuel Saez have provided in their vast research in the field of economic disparities, a choice few stand out. Perhaps none ...

Lane Kenworthy’s Dec. 14 Ideas essay, “Almost everything you’ve heard about inequality is wrong,” offers a useful challenge to the popular belief that reducing income inequality is a cure-all for ...