Thomas Piketty’s ambitious, lucid Capital in the Twenty-First Century explains the depth and scope of our inequality problem.

During a decade when economic inequality grew by leaps and bounds in the rest of the world, it declined significantly in Latin America.

Policies favored by tech-industry titans tend to leave the economic privileges of the powerful unchecked, while penciling in a little welfare capitalism for the poor.

What remains to be seen is whether the IMF will use this research to develop policies that grow the economy through redistribution.

Göran Therborn's Killing Fields of Inequality forces us to reassess the social order around us and its appalling human costs.