Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

The study lead by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across ten millennia, more unequal distributions of wealth correlated with longer-term human settlement. However, ...

It wasn’t one sudden shift. Instead, inequality started to grow around 1,500 years after agriculture took hold in different regions. As communities settled down and grew larger, competition for land, ...

The specter of economic inequality is haunting nations across the globe, creating anxiety that reaches far beyond statistical charts and economic reports. From developed democracies to emerging ...

“It is not the case that inequality is simply a necessary by-product of building complex, sustainable societies,” Lawrence explained. “What we found is that, as humankind’s systems become larger and ...