Shi-Ling Hsu (Florida State): The Rise and Rise of the One Percent: Considering Legal Causes of Inequality. Robert Reich on the political roots of widening inequality: The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn’t technology or globalization — it’s the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market. How to join the 1%: The first chapter from Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Lauren A. Rivera (and more). Eduardo Porter on how income inequality is costing the U.S. on social issues — and on what the debate on inequality is missing. Disposable income in the United States is more unequally distributed than in most other advanced countries, but why? Paul Krugman on explaining US inequality exceptionalism. Annie Linskey on how there are no “two Baltimores”: Fixing Baltimore is not about inequality — it’s about poverty. GDP growth is strong — that doesn’t mean inequality is going anywhere. Is support for income redistribution really falling? Jonathan Chait on why conservatives use novels to justify inequality. Emily Badger on how people have no idea what inequality actually looks like. Gillian B. White on how America’s failing public transportation increases inequality. Mark Thoma on how long commutes worsen inequality. Margot Sanger-Katz on how income inequality is also bad for your health. James Kwak (Connecticut): Reducing Inequality with a Retrospective Tax on Capital. If you thought income inequality was bad, get a load of wealth inequality.
