By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
Manchester’s new strategic gameplan comes from a special commission that metro area’s top governing body created last October “to survey the damage done and the inequalities exposed” over the past year and recommend what Manchester can do to transcend those inequalities.
By Gurminder K. Bhambra, Wiley Online Library
Not accounting for the historical processes and legacies of colonialism in the construction of inequalities both within and across countries is a fatal flaw in Piketty's analysis and undercuts the possibility of constructing a politics that could address the problems of our time.
By Neal Rockwell, Uneven Earth
The Asset Economy, a new monograph published by Polity Books may help shed some light on the economic structures that could provoke this unusual K-shaped economic phenomenon.
By Chuck Collins, Open Democracy
Today’s massive concentrations of wealth and power are disruptive to democratic institutions, social cohesion, and economic stability for all. It’s time for a billionaire wealth tax.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
In my latest podcast we are exploring how it would be if Feeney’s thinking were to be embraced by those holding the vast reserves of money that the world needs to address its complex problems right now. What if they shifted and recognised the need to let go of what they’re holding onto? And how would it feel to do so?
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
For example, why do women retire with significantly lower Social Security benefits, after a lifetime of gender prejudiced earnings?
By Samuel Alexander, Alex Baumann, Resilience.org
But you might be surprised to find this 1% doesn’t just comprise the super-rich. It may include you, or people you know. And this fact has big implications for social justice and planetary survival.
By Keiko Yokoyama, Resilience.org
Dickens' story embodies the nature of contemporary economic problems which we face, in terms of interest, debt traps and the meaning of the financial economy for both the haves and the have-nots.
By Panagiota Kotsila, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Ilenia Iengo, Uneven Earth
Like a toolbox to unpack and understand the complexity of the socio-ecological crises we live in, political ecology is dedicated to a more just and inclusive world.
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Open Democracy
The world’s 2,153 billionaires currently control more wealth than the bottom 4.6 billion people (60% of the planet’s population) precisely because the worldwide exploitation of working classes has thrown up perverse patterns of maldistribution.
By Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, Sara Mycklebust, Bianca Agustin, Jonathan Heller, Inequality.org
As of November 17, the combined wealth of 647 U.S. billionaires increased by almost $960 billion since mid-March, the beginning of the pandemic lockdown—an increase of nearly $1 trillion in less than a year
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The dream of seeing your children attain a better life than you is a human dream of every parent. Equality and justice for all cannot exist when too few have too much, and the majority have too little.