Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 320 pp., $29.95 (cloth). From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of ...

The United States is one of just a handful of high-income countries to have a high level of inequality, according to data ...

Figure 1.3: Global inequality has been decreasing, but remains high within countries. Note: Bar height indicates level of global inequality as measured by the mean log deviation (left hand scale).

The accelerating changes around the world mean we constantly have to respond and adapt to realities and issues ... The poorest half of humanity saw no gains at all. Changing patterns of global ...