Income inequality is at record levels in the United States today, levels not seen since 1929 immediately before the Great Depression. If you think this is no problem then consider what happened last time inequality in the Unites States was at these levels and then remember the credit crunch of 2008. A great inequality in

... too convincing. The problem is that there are many other factors that affect income inequality that weren't included in the model. Here are a few that I am aware of: GDP: ... to move from one to the other. Could this help explain the persistence of religion and inequality in some parts of the modern world? This article ...

... talent that David lacks. Is this a mere difference or is it also an inequality? According to Therborn we can't answer the question until we know whether it is abolishable. ... of thing is just a fact of life that cannot (feasibly) be changed. It will then not be an inequality according to the same criterion. But that, too, seems counterintuitive to me. If differences of talent can be the source ...

... can bring clarity to arguments. This is the strength of a striking, though not original, essay on inequality by Göran Therborn, whose title certainly doesn't undersell its significance ... both in access to opportunities and in rewards. All are the product of clearly defined processes: Inequality can be produced in four basic ways. First there is distantiation – some people are running ahead and ...

... point where the best schools become unaffordable to most families. The evidence indicates that patterns of inequality more closely resemble the Gates scenario than the bifurcation scenario.  It ... the run-up of recent decades were as consequential as the level we have today, for we are unlikely to ever see inequality levels so low in the foreseeable future. As this graph shows, his assertion ...

... combinatorics is the Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality: Theorem 1 (Plünnecke ... copies of ; this improves slightly over the analogous combinatorial inequality. Indeed, the function is concave (this can be seen by using the version of Theorem 2 ... Madiman; it is the case of Theorem 2). As a corollary of this inequality, we see that if , then and Theorem 2 follows by telescoping series. The proof ...