Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, auction houses and art galleries. She was also a Black woman who passed as white.
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A handbag becoming a symbol of class strife aptly defines the mood of the online zeitgeist.
Luxury travel used to mean super rich tourists spending US$500 a night on accommodation. But the definition of luxury travel is changing, with many non-millionaires willing to splurge on holidays.
Some are calling for wealth caps and reduced political influence.
Between 2002 and 2018, some groups actually increased their wealth on certain measures. For young people and middle Australians, however, it’s a more sobering picture.
Low-income individuals face a double penalty: they are both more likely to need long-term care and they are less financially equipped to bear the associated costs.
In the past few years, the atmosphere has chilled for China’s billionaire class – an expert explains why.
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
Ancient Indian texts describe in detail which flowers are favored by which gods and the elaborate rituals around how to offer them.
The ‘Laughing Buddha’ shows how people have adapted Buddhism to different cultural and historical contexts.
Inequality is bad for politics, the economy, society and climate change.
Mapping daily temperature variations across the US revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.
When the benefit people get from owning a home is taken into account, Australia looks more like Canada than Switzerland.
Most Australians earn more than their parents.
But those born into the poorest families face the biggest barriers to improving their lot.
While Warren Buffet’s ‘buy low, sell high’ strategy has proven extremely successful for himself, it’s challenging for those without significant financial resources.
Cate Blanchett’s claim to be ‘middle class’ isn’t unique among the wealthy, or even the 1% she’s part of. Downplaying privilege among elites contributes to the problem of wealth inequality.
Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
Corruption imposes mental health costs on individuals.
New research shows only 3% of the population paid any capital gains tax in the last decade.
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Associate professor of Sociology, Boston University
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand