A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic inequality manifests itself on various dimensions, including access to resources ...

Billionaires saw their wealth increase across the last four years due to policies put forth by the Federal Reserve, leading ...

The results, published on April 14 in the journal PNAS, contradict many longstanding assumptions about inequality’s inevitability and how societies organize over time. America’s wealth ...

Over time, larger settlements developed as hubs ... The findings challenge the idea that high wealth inequality is inevitable. Instead, it was often a localized consequence of expanding societies ...

The panel, developed in partnership with TIME and moderated by TIME's CEO and Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal, met to discuss the ways inequality ... model that has, over the years, grown ...

In short, before treating inequality as an existential crisis ... When studies in different countries instead follow individuals over time, they typically find that within only a few years, half the ...

At the same time, the surges in inequality seen in country after country ... It will not involve doing the same thing in the same place over and over again. Unless we are all prepared for change ...

Over time, larger settlements developed as hubs of wider hierarchies, sustained through land-intensive farming systems. Professor Bogaard said: "The emergence of high wealth inequality wasn't an ...

From expensive Connecticut rent and high annual income to the number of impoverished residents, stark disparities and ...

Thus, during the first decade of transition in Poland, changes in inequality over time appear to be explained by changes in government transfer programs and do not appear to be systematically related ...

In addition, with the burden of additional time required for childcare ... perhaps the most insidious new inequality spawned by the pandemic is between children who have been able to continue their ...