For those of you who don’t remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (it even has its own acronym, GFC), it was no walk in the park. From late-2007 to mid-2009, a downturn in the US housing market ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

To explore how public sentiment can influence minimum wage policies, we zoomed in on protests as a signal of public opinion across the US. We analysed data from over 130,000 protests across US ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

In the ‘World Inequality Report 2026’ released last month, it was pointed out ‘Inequality has long been a defining feature of the global economy, but by 2025, it has reached levels that demand urgent ...

Objective Socioeconomic inequalities significantly impact access to healthcare services for individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study investigates these inequalities in Iran, ...