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Robert J. Antonio (University of Kansas)   In last spring’s and early summer’s unlikely bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century,  Thomas Piketty [...]

Katharina Hecht (LSE)   The top 1 percent of income earners in the UK accounted for as much as 15 percent of [...]

Alberta Andreotti (University of Milan-Bicocca), Patrick Le Galès, (CNRS-Sciences-Po Paris) and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (IPP-CSIC)   Amused by his former students at [...]

Janine R. Wedel (George Mason University)   Over the past decade-plus, I have been charting the emergence of a new type of [...]

Image: FreeFoto.com   Sarah Hall (University of Nottingham) Some of the most enduring images of the 2007-8 financial crisis were pictures of newly [...]

Photo: Hang Kei-Ho Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) and Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths, University of London)   The usual preamble doesn’t apply to this [...]

Nigel Dodd (LSE)   We are used to thinking of the relationship between money and inequality in rather obvious ways. Members of [...]

Julie Froud (Manchester Business School), Sukhdev Johal (Queen Mary University of London) and Michael Moran (Manchester Business School)    It has been [...]

Jenny Hansson (Birkbeck College, University of London)   Women in today’s western society are still less successful than men in reaching its [...]

Shamus Rahman Khan (Columbia University)   In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, chants of ‘We. Are. The 99 Percent!’ [...]