I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Or if that's too ambitious a goal then how about how to reduce inequality in America? Now, I have to admit, that inequality really isn't one of those things that I worry about very much. Poverty is, ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

The interest rate regime embraced to combat strong inflation of the mid-1970s and early 1980s has had unintended consequences—including the development of historic levels of wealth inequality. Yakov ...

Earnings inequality in America has increased since 1979 — that much we know. But why and what to do about it is murky — in part because we’re not all talking about the same group of people when we ...

Inequality is inevitable in a market economy like America’s. There is unequal income and wealth because people are different. They’re competing. Some people want to work harder, they apply themselves ...

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The most potent ‘solutions’ for inequality are unpleasant. Tight labor markets shrink income inequality by causing employers to bid up the price of scarce labor, so policymakers fretting about income ...

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 ...