Most Americans have no idea how unequal wealth as well as income is in the United States. This is the thesis of Les Leopold, who wrote Ho...

In 2018, 26 billionaires owned the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people, worldwide, according to a study by Oxfam, an...

In the United States, the disposable income of families in the middle of the income distribution shrank by 4 percent between 2000 and 2010,...

In Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on 11/11/11 in 2011, costumes were the norm in the evening as revelers celebrated the numeric convergence...

I contend that a concern that too much income or wealth is concentrated “at the top” in the U.S. does not necessarily translate into a dema...

In what has become known as India, the caste system of Hinduism has for millennia served as the template for the socio-economic ordering of...

“ Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House rose by more than 2 1 / 2 times, according to the analysis of financ...

From 1993 to 2010, the incomes of the richest 1 percent of Americans grew 58 percent while the rest had a 6.4 percent increase.   In 2010, ...

In April 2012, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella ...

The Huffington Post observed in 2012: “Wall Street's campaign spending and lobbying power is so intimidating that banks have repeatedly...

Both Marx and Rousseau are “anti-history” in the sense that socioeconomic and sociopolitical large, complex organization, well beyond the sm...

In his text,  Capital in the Twenty-First Century,  Thomas Piketty claims that economic inequality increases societally when the rate of ret...

Both Marx and Rousseau are “anti-history” in the sense that socioeconomic and sociopolitical large, complex organization, well beyond the s...

Kant claims that a greater use of reason is part of becoming enlightened, whereas Rousseau advocates a reduction in the use of reason to tha...

In the United States, executives have been compensated much more than their own non-supervisory workers. This has been so in not only absol...

Kant defines enlightenment as “man's emergence from his inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.” ...

The financial sector, which includes banks like JPMorgan and insurance companies like AIG, had the fastest earnings growth in the Standard ...

The state-debt crisis in the E.U. has had the unfortunate effect of exacerbating the prejudice in the northern states against the poorer so...

According to the Congressional Research Service, the share of total net worth held by the less affluent half of American household...

Coming out of the recession that followed the financial crisis of 2008, Maryland “raised income taxes on its top earners . . . to ...