Pineapple and celery were the precursors of today’s obsession with kale and avocado toast.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre Wealth
Mostrando 41 - 60 de 123 artículos
Recent experimental results suggest that distortions in the perception of wealth are linked to fast, inattentive thinking.
As more people of color move to the suburbs, they might not find the full range of opportunities that white European ethnic groups did for most of the previous century.
Better data would tell us more about the ultrawealthy, but they really do seem to be growing more wealthy, more quickly, than the rest of us.
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a global news story, but the police refused to investigate.
High levels of inequality damage our health, harm social cohesion and act as a brake on economic performance.
Inherited wealth matters less among Australia’s super rich, fresh ideas matter more.
Inequality persists in post-apartheid South Africa, reflecting the distribution of power. Reversing this will require changing the social processes and relations that underpin it.
As the debate over what ails philanthropy heats up, the questions are going beyond whether massive charitable donations help or hurt society.
What do earthquakes, wealthy Italian families and your circulatory system have in common? Scientists use fractals, self-similarity and power laws to translate from local to global scales.
As millennials flock to certain parts of the US, home prices in those areas are surging.
Retirees with superannuation balances of $1. pay and pay no tax and get annual imputation cheques of $63,000.
Wealth inequality in South Africa is not only intolerably high, its also not reducing.
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost $500. Today, you can make the same call on a cellphone for a few cents.
Thanks to a long history of exclusionary government programs, the typical black family now has only 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family.
Human capital is a key contributor to a country’s economy. Here’s how families and the state can nurture this asset.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
For a nation in the grips of a housing crisis, you’d expect high-rise developments to be good news – unfortunately not.
From wealth, to the natural world, to genes and intelligence, a podcast exploring the theme of inheritance.
South Africans debating the zero rating of certain products for VAT purposes must realise it isn’t a panacea for poor people and should be accompanied by other policies.
Principales colaboradores
-
Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
-
Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
-
Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
-
Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
-
Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
-
Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
-
Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
-
Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
-
Peter Whiteford es Amigo de The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
-
Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
-
Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
-
Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
-
Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
