Is Economics Promoting Inequality? by Kaushik Basu published by Project Syndicate (10/2025). Mainstream economics has often underestimated the critical role of trust and cooperation in enabling prosperity. As a result, it has justified and even encouraged the greed, exploitation,…
Assuntos Sociais
Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality (Flachaire, Lustig, Vigorito)
Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality: A Comparison of Correction Methods using Simulations and Linked Survey and Tax Data by Emmanuel Flachaire, Nora Lustig, Andrea Vigorito published The Review of Income and Wealth (10/2022). Household surveys do not capture…
Assuntos Econômicos
Low Internet Access Driving Inequality (García-Escribano)
Low Internet Access Driving Inequality by Mercedes García-Escribano publicado por IMF Blog (6/2020) “COVID-19 and the Great Lockdown triggered a mass migration from analog to digital and highlighted that access to the Internet is crucial for socioeconomic inclusion….
A brief history of (in)equality by J. Bradford Delong published by Project Syndicate (7/2016). “History teaches us that these latter responses to inequality have made the world a better place. Unfortunately – and at the risk of oversimplification –…
