inequality

Is Robert Reich a serious guy? American democracy is a sham. You have ended up with something nobody would have voted for. This proves it.

Obviously what level of inequality is optimal will depend on the criteria you use. For the sake of this discussion, let's consider happiness. Do you think the level of inequality in the society you live in is too low, too high or about right to optimise the happiness of the people who live in it?

Today's National Equality Panel (NEP) report adds further evidence that inequality isn't related to economic success http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport60.pdf However http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/indexhealthsocial_notts.jpg In other words inequality has...

I have recently been reading a lot of The Equality Trust's material and was wondering what other people thought of them. Their basic idea is that most social problems (physical and mental health, obesity, violence, teenage pregnancies drug abuse etc) in developed countries vary closely with the...