Millionaires under the Microscope: Data Gap on Top Wealth Holders Closed: Wealth Concentration Higher than Presumed.

Millionaires have so far been underrepresented in population surveys, so little is known about them and the precise concentration of wealth in Germany.

Link: DIW Weekly Report.

Does economic globalisation affect income inequality? A meta-analysis

A large volume of econometric literature has studied the impact of economic globalisation on income inequality around the world. However, reported econometric estimates vary substantially, which makes it difficult to draw valid...

Jason Hickel talks about the problem of limitless exponential growth, the lack of power balance in economic global governance, and argues for a fairer global economy.

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distrib...

A memoir and a meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my p...