Among the most hotly debated topics in economic policy these days is a wealth tax on billionaires — a levy targeting the ...

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth.

Even among 2024 Trump voters, a plurality (34 percent) felt that taxes on billionaires were too low, while just 12 percent ...

California progressives are pushing a wealth tax that would skim 5 percent of the assets of billionaires to cover the state ...

The World Inequality Report 2026, the third report in the series after earlier 2018 and 2022 editions, is based on the work ...

U.S. philantropist and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller gives a dime to a child. After “robber barons” like Rockefeller amassed a staggering amount of wealth in the late 19th century, the progressive ...

Now suppose that only half the nominal tax our top billionaires pay on their investment gains represents the economic ...

The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2025), pp. 127-148 (22 pages) Inequality has become a defining challenge for modern economies and a central focus of economic research over ...

It is a fact that South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, but will a wealth tax really change this?

A homeless encampment in Kitchener, Ontario, in front of the former Krug Furniture factory According to a report by Statistics Canada on income and wealth distribution issued in July, income ...

Local governments in the United States are responsible for many of the services people rely on daily—schools, parks, public ...

Despite numerous policy interventions since apartheid, South Africa remains the world's most unequal nation, with racial ...