This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

This essay presents a rigorous theory of involuntary unemployment in less developed countries based on the observation … that at low consumption levels a person's overall ability to work is impaired. The theory links the incidence of … involuntary unemployment in a market economy to the incidence of malnutrition and this in turn to inequality in the distribution …

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …