Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

The study lead by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across ten millennia, more unequal distributions of wealth correlated with longer-term human settlement. However, ...

The principle of equality, while long enshrined in national constitutions and international institutions, remains an unrealized ideal for global humanity. The growing gap between ideal and reality, ...

It wasn’t one sudden shift. Instead, inequality started to grow around 1,500 years after agriculture took hold in different regions. As communities settled down and grew larger, competition for land, ...

The U.S. economy is more dependent than ever on the lavish spending of the wealthiest, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. The top 10% of earners (households making $250,000 per year or more) ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Figure 1. Conceptual diagram of the 4 emission components that constitute the multidimensional emissions profile (MEP) framework, and their relationships with production-based account (PBA) and ...

“It is not the case that inequality is simply a necessary by-product of building complex, sustainable societies,” Lawrence explained. “What we found is that, as humankind’s systems become larger and ...