Pope Francis, who has died at 88, fought for economic justice with a consistency that distinguished him from the elites of ...

According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it ...

Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.

Stiglitz, renowned economist said, unlike Adam's Smith view, "The pursuit of self-interest in the age of AI does not mean the ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

“High degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies,” said Feinman. “There are factors that may make it easier ...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Credit - Bettmann Archive—. P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has ...

This approach let scientists compare economic differences across ... or medieval Europe have been used as models for how inequality developed. But the global view tells a more diverse story.