Concerns about inequality animate much of today’s political debate. But Michael Tanner uses his latest National Review Online column to highlight benefits of inequality. Hooray! Economic inequality has decreased. Fewer…
John Tamny‘s latest column for Real Clear Markets challenges the popular notion that increased inequality must be bad. In 1989 then prominent computer maker Tandy released the Tandy 5000. Though…
Brad Polumbo uses a National Review Online column to ponder young adults’ intense fascination with inequality. Thanks to people like [Bernie] Sanders, the idea that income inequality is the “defining…
That is the notion that wealthy people are responsible for holding back economic progress by others because they have too much and spend too little. Iain Murray of the Competitive…
The crux of Piketty’s argument is that the rich will just keep getting richer and richer than regular folks, but as AEI’s Andrew Biggs points out here, that assumes that…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute uses his latest National Review Online column to puncture some myths about American income inequality. Unfortunately, bad facts make for bad policy. Let’s look…
Richard Epstein devotes a column for the Hoover Institution’s “Defining Ideas” to tackling some of the ideas French economist Thomas Piketty has put forward to address income inequality. One of…
Kevin Williamson shares with National Review Online readers some interesting data about Americans’ income levels, along with the political ramifications. Far from having the 21st-century equivalent of an Edwardian class…
“Inequality for All,” a documentary by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, will screen Monday at the Main Branch of the Henderson County Library. This film’s website gives the…
It is concentrations of wealth that produce everything I want and need. My house, computers, cars, my new television, my blood pressure medication, my cell phone, the services provided on…
Walter Williams‘ latest column explores the politics of American counties with the highest average incomes. You might be shocked — shocked! — by his discovery. Loudoun County, Va., has a…
Nina Easton‘s latest Fortune column offers good reasons to emulate — rather than demonize — the “1 percent.” What if I told you that there was a group of hard-driving…