“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Probability inequalities provide bounds on the likelihood that a stochastic process deviates from its expected behaviour. They encompass a broad class of results—such as exponential, sub-Gaussian and ...

Inequality in the distribution of income is one of today’s hottest topics. Almost every day there is a new statistic demonstrating great and increasing inequality and a new sermon deploring it. As one ...

Economic inequality is at an all-time high in the United States. Some claim that decades of systematic legislation have resulted in the wealthiest three families owning more wealth than the bottom ...

Changing course on decades of deepening inequality requires bold action and vision. The U.S. is in the grips of an inequality emergency. Decades of deliberate, regressive policy choices have rigged ...