Finding a way to reduce inequality is key not only to solving a host of other problems but also to rescuing America’s fast-disappearing middle class.
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The ranks of a ‘new urban poor’ in Europe are swelling.
Populations revolt when lives are improving but not fast enough to meet their rising expectations.
Some economists have touted the rising middle class as a panacea for Africa’s challenges. But a more realistic diagnosis of what makes up a middle class is needed.
Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
Falling homeownership rates, stagnant wages and diminishing retirement savings mean that for more and more Americans, the middle-class dream is slowly dying – if it’s not already gone.
Reaching middle class status and sustaining it into retirement is a major challenge. The key is to live within your means.
Three of our regular writers offer their thoughts on the key economic issues and themes in the new year.
Our scholars delivered a steady supply of research and analysis on what was a busy year in business and economics.
It’s not just about passing exams – parents are paying for their children to be ‘people smart’.
Sure, a chunk of Stuyvesant Town’s units will remain affordable for 20 years. But what happens after that?
One reason for widening inequality is the decline of unions, which in turn is partly the result of the gradual elimination of the “working class” from our vocabulary.
The black middle class occupies a complex and sometimes precarious position in society, one that requires constant renegotiation.
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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PhD student, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer of Urban Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Exeter
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Professor of Public Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
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Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, McGill University
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Lecturer in Media and Journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Visiting Researcher at the Social Debt Observatory, Catholic University of Argentina and Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University