Learn why the Palma Ratio offers a straightforward alternative to the Gini coefficient for measuring economic inequality.

President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

There’s a common thread tying together the most disruptive revolutions of human history, and it has some scientists worried about the United States. In those revolutions, conflict largely boiled down ...

Gini Wilson, known as The Duchess, is legendary in the Bay area as a brilliant jazz pianist, entertainer, and composer. In concerts and interviews she is also noted for her irreverent sense of humor .

Not everyone has the same amount of money. Some are richer. Some are poorer. That’s pretty obvious. But just how much more money do the rich have? How much poorer are the poor? Those are questions ...

There are lies, damned lies and Gini index statistics. A single statistical measure invented in 1912 cannot hope to capture the nature of inequality in an entire country in 2019. Tim Worstall of the ...