The relevance of Piketty’s 'A Brief History of Equality' to New Zealand.

by Brian Easton July 15, 2022

The ongoing decline in market income inequality stopped in the 1980s. Since then it has been stable, while 1990 public policy actively increased disposable income inequality.

Common Good Economics

by Brian Easton June 01, 2018

Another French economist contributes an uncommonly good book.

We need to talk about the one per cent

by Josie Pagani October 23, 2015

One per cent of the world's population now control half its wealth.

The concentration of more and more resources in fewer and fewer hands has actually accelerated since the global financial crisis. This is no accident. It is the outcome of policy decisions made – or avoided – by political leaders either unable to learn the lessons of the crisis or unwilling to act on them.

Does Income Inequality Reduce Equality of Opportunity?

by Brian Easton June 29, 2015

Recent publications suggest that the children who live at the bottom in economies with high inequality have reduced life chances.

Here’s what to do about inequality

by Josie Pagani June 09, 2014

If a large majority of us are worried about inequality and National is making the problem worse, not better, why isn’t the Left doing better politically?