Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all…

Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has…

— Robert H. Frank

“In short, this latest attempt to debunk the notion that we’ve become a vastly more unequal society has itself been debunked. And you should…

— Anonymous

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period…

— William Julius Wilson

We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

— Paul Krugman

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic…

— John Lanchester

A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy…

— Robert J. Shiller

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left…

— Paul Krugman

“The three topics of this book - technological change, education, and inequality - are intricately related in a kind of 'race.' During the first…

— Claudia Goldin

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

— Kevin Drum

Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and staged more…

— Robert H. Frank

It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn…

— Robert H. Frank

“if you’re not financially independent, you will spend an increasing amount of your time and energy worrying about your socioeconomic future.”

— Thomas J. Stanley

The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and…

— Noam Chomsky