Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

Thomas Piketty argues that it’s time to address global inequality—through radical changes in economic policy.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

Tired: CEO pay is rising faster than share price. Wired: CEO pay is rising faster than the entire stock market.

The former Texas senator says income inequality is a myth. He couldn’t be more wrong, but I admire the old grouch for trying.

Eight years ago, I didn’t believe America was becoming a wealth aristocracy. Now I’m not so sure.

The disparity between the soaring stock market and struggling Americans perfectly epitomizes the country’s grotesque inequality.

On paper, he seems obsessed with besting Trump as a trade warrior. But his rhetoric suggests he wants to pick a fight with the aristocrats.

His new book diagnoses a society obsessed with property rights.

This year's Objectivist Conference revealed that her cult of hyper-capitalism has a major recruiting problem: All the young people want to be socialists!

Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination.

Long a silent presence in American life, class is now sharply felt in upheavals and displacement across the country.

The two economists have a lot in common, but their differences matter too