Jacobin | The welfare state is essential for keeping the nonworking population out of poverty. But we shouldn’t discount the role of predistributive measures like strong unions and minimum wage laws in reducing inequality.
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Less is more. How degrowth will save the world.
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will le...
Intergenerational wealth transmission and homeownership in Europe–a comparative perspective
Abstract
The literature on social and wealth inequality has long acknowledged the importance of intergenerational wealth transmission (IWT) to inequality in homeownership tenure. However, it has paid insu...
The report is based on data collected from more than 100 WID.world Fellows across five continents, compiled, unified and fed into the World Wealth and Income Database (see www.wid.world/team for more information).
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the worlds seven-billion-plus population pushes the planetand all its peopleto the social and ecological brink.
In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Sh...
On the occasion of the Einstein Year 2005, Dr. Daniel Dahm, Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr and Rudolf zur Lippe wrote the Potsdam Manifesto and the Potsdam Memorandum. It bridges quantum physics, ecology and philosophy and shows that diversity, difference and change are evolutionary principles of our living wo...