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In the question of the day, a listener rejected the notion that you can only become wealthy if you take away wealth from ...
A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...
In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...
We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...
Evidence is mounting that AI will have the greatest impact on tasks performed by high-wage workers—and will provide new ...
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.
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 ...
Zoho Corporation CEO Sridhar Vembu issued a warning in a recent post on X, where he laid out what he called the five societal ...
Klein and Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws but that can’t be the ...
New research from the University of Oxford shows land-hungry farming and scarce land drove wealth inequality over the past 10 ...
Wealthier merchants, for example, were charged double the poll tax rate and five times the property rate of a free peasant. However, in reality, it resulted in significantly higher rates of income ...