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NAFTA renegotiations may see provisions from the Trans-Pacific Partnership revive like zombies. We must remember their failures - on income inequality, labour and environmental protection.
At society’s margins, people without access to the mainstream job economy are able to carve out lives rich in other resources and community.
Justifying Sydney’s ranking as a liveable city requires greater recognition of the inequality of Sydneysiders’ access to jobs, wealth, transport and housing.
Trump should drop his plans to cut taxes and instead look to some of our closest friends to learn what policies actually work to build and sustain a vibrant middle class.
A new report confirms how the rich become deluded about their talents, but also hints at a growing acknowledgement of inequality.
We get angry about pay disparities, but the complex nature of executive salaries makes it hard to know where to start.
The soaring cost of housing has helped make capital ownership more profitable than work.
Wealth inequality is no 21st-century phenomenon. But it was decisively shaped by public policy during the last 100 years as economies emerged from war and redesigned the structures for life.
Not only has income inequality in Australia grown over the past two decades, rich and poor are also more segregated in terms of where they live in the big cities.
Our big cities increase incomes faster than population growth, but most residents miss out on the extra income growth. Creating multiple centres of activity may help make bigger better for everyone.
In work poverty is a sign the icy tide of capitalism is now lapping at our ankles in the global north.
New ONS data indicate that the UK’s poorest households are doing better and the richest are worse off. But this isn’t the full picture.
New research finds higher property prices are associated with higher household income and spending inequality.
Some people evidently think wealth inequality is a good thing, but there’s plenty of evidence to show the problems it causes.
Digital devices can make a real difference in treating chronic diseases. But many who have these conditions are poor, and they often cannot afford the devices.
The Christian left has played a strong role in America’s history. In this election too, it is not silent.
Finding a way to reduce inequality is key not only to solving a host of other problems but also to rescuing America’s fast-disappearing middle class.
Although the Fed delayed raising rates this month, it has signaled it intends to wean the U.S. economy off its unprecedented monetary stimulus. Now the question is whether Congress will take the handoff.
Like in the US and UK, Australian companies should be forced to disclose how the pay of CEOs compares with that of an average worker.
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Bordeaux Schoool of Economics, Université de Bordeaux
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Professor/Economist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Professor in Social Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, ESCP Business School
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Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights, Hult International Business School
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
