A new body of research is shedding light on the extent to which inequality is the result of unequal life chances versus individual effort. Advances in measuring inequality of opportunity have made it ...

One of the most provocative — and most disturbing — of this year's economics books is "The Great Leveler." Its historian/author Walter Scheidel argues that economic inequality is not only inevitable, ...

We have reached a consensus that Japan’s society has become distinctly stratified. Income inequality is growing, and people seem to accept that society is divided between the wealthy and a large ...