Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social classes. This paper reports … the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of rising inequality on the tendency to burn others … how fair and transparent this relationship is. The findings indicate that increasing inequality does not per se lead to …

and inequality in initial endowments. We find, consistent with theoretical predictions, that democracy breakdown is more … likely the lower the productivity, and increases with the degree of inequality. …

Using a threshold public good experiment, we examine how varying degrees of inequality in resources and differences in … greater risk than the rich, contributions and success in reaching the threshold decrease with increasing inequality in funds … of the rich are not averse to inequality. These results highlight the challenges confronting parties in real …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic growth game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus … economies mitigates over time. Our findings suggest that both the level and the (exogenous or endogenous) source of inequality …