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Articles on Wealth
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A prenuptial agreement can help millennial couples navigate concerns about student debt in their marriage.
Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
One of the gifts that Prime Minister Modi gave to President Biden symbolizes the recipient’s having seen 1,000 full moons, implying a long and auspicious life.
Money may not buy you happiness, but a favourite keepsake can boost happiness and wellbeing.
Forget wealth or capital gains taxes, a straight tax on housing equity – exempting most homeowners – would be a simple and efficient way to break the circuit of inequality.
Education, contacts and luck can play a considerable role when it comes to building up wealth.
New Zealand’s ‘one percent’ pay lower tax rates than ordinary earners – just don’t expect any big changes to tax policy in the near future.
A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
Why are we so utterly in thrall to upper-crust tales of privilege, riches and scandal? Because it’s a great story of wealth, heritage and survival in the modern world.
Research shows differences in how people set savings goals that could contribute to a wealth gap between men and women in the UK.
On many dimensions, Millennials aged 25-35 are better off than were Boomers, with housing and the environment the big exceptions.
Media ownership has consolidated around a handful of billionaires – and that might not be great for democracy.
Can modern society afford billionaires?
The number of New Zealanders with ‘negative net wealth’ is large and growing – reflecting widening economic inequality that remains an urgent political priority.
Zakat, or charity, is a fundamental practice within the Islamic faith.
Highly compensated ‘enablers’ such as financial experts, lawyers, accountants, notaries, estate agents and company service providers are assisting oligarchs, dictators and criminals around the world.
A taxation expert explains why South Dakota has become a favorite state for the ultra-rich when it comes to squirreling away their wealth.
In 1950, the top 0.01% of earners paid almost 70% of their income in taxes. By 2018, the super-rich paid proportionately less than the average for all other Americans.
Top contributors
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Lifestyle International Professor of Business and Chair Professor of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
