Barcelona GSE Lecture XXII. Jess Benhabib (New York University) Democracy and Income Distribution In his research, Prof. Benhabib discovered that typical assumptions about inequality and...
Professor of New York University Edward Wolff describes how the distribution of wealth and income has developed in the US and other countries. The effects...
PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 8, 2011 The Congressional Budget Office release a report revealing that income inequality between the top 1% and top 99% has (unsurprisingly)...
Huey Long was a Progressive Senator during the Great Depression who believed in wealth redistribution. He organized upwards of seven million Americans to see this...
The history of income redistribution is discussed in light of the fact that presidential hopeful, Senator John McCain has accused presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama...