| The Causes of Income Inequality - Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.
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| China: A Shared Poverty To Uneven Wealth? - A George Washington University analysis of how economic reforms (away from socialism) have caused a widening income gap in China, and yet raised the standards of living of the Chinese people.
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| Closing the Wealth Gap - A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity.
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| Addressing the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty - Outlines a proposals to reduce the disparity in wealth between poor and wealthy nations and individuals, through taxation and redistribution.
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| Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze - Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in the US. Includes statistics.
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| A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality - Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom 80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block.
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| The New Inequality (from Boston Review) - MIT's prestigious Boston Review discusses the rise of income inequality in the United States with a variety of economists and proposes some remedies, all along socialist lines.
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| IGC articles on income inequality - A collection of online articles from various organisations concerning income inequality in the US and abroad, claiming there is a growing gap, that this is bad, and that it should be "fixed" by government force.
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| The Conquest of Poverty - Drawing lessons from history and economics, Hazlitt shows how the Western world has nearly eradicated poverty. But "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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| Poverty, Inequality and Development: Research at Cornell University - Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University.
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| Capitalist Policies - Position paper that such policies lead to social and economic inequality. By Ramin Farahmandpur.
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| CONVERGE project - Organization dedicated to analysis of Economic and technological regional convergence in Europe. Provides conference descriptions, case studies, and research.
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| The University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) - The UTIP is a research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world. Techniques are applied to data from the United States, the OECD, and UNIDO, with interesting results for both developed and developing countries.
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| United for a Fair Economy - U.S. national, independent, nonpartisan organization concerned about the growing income, wage and wealth inequality in the United States. Specific issues include wage inequalities and "tax cuts for the rich".
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| Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs - The Justice and the World Economy (JWE) program provides resources and an inter-professional and interdisciplinary forum for discussions concerning the justice of various global institutional arrangements.
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| Helena Norberg-Hodge - An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, regarding globalism, new world economics, and their effects on the consumerist society.
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| The L-Curve - Graphically describes and criticizes income distribution in the United States.
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