Before reading this article, I would like you to ask yourself, “Have poverty and inequality in the world increased, decreased, or … Continue reading “Poverty and inequality: Separating fact from fiction”

150 years after Karl Marx first proposed it, the theory of immiseration continues to have an uncanny hold on the … Continue reading “How Danny Dorling (and Oxfam) recycle Karl Marx’s wretched ‘immiseration theory’”

As a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs explains this week, the tale we are told about inequality in … Continue reading “Is envy of the super-rich by the rest of the rich driving the inequality debate?”