Essays on Economic Inequality

An unfortunate trend has arisen in Africa that involves the enrichment of select groups of people, often at the expense of others. In particular, various parts of Africa could now be accurately characterized by “the fragmentation of public authority and emergence of multiple forms of...

Inequality has been a noticeable public issue; however distributional problems are still avoided by majority of economists. Anthony Atkinson is a well-known economist that channelled his studies on the issues of social justice and public policies. In Atkinson’s book Inequality, he puts those issues in...

Did you know that ‘If established trends in wealth inequality were to continue, the top 0.1% alone will own more wealth than the global middle class by 2050.”? For several years, inequalities have been growing between countries but also within nations. Is this the result...

‘Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies’ By Seth Holmes explores how the mexican migrant farmer population suffer. Seth spends a year and a half living and working with migrant farm workers. His accounts are from the fieldwork that he reported through writing and interviews with his surroundings...

Even though the United States is argumentatively one of the most developed nations in the world, it is also one of the most unequal in terms of the distribution of wealth between the rich and poor. Each country is given a gini coefficient, which is...

Corruption is acknowledged to be widespread. Concern about corruption is driven by its widely accepted pernicious effects. It undermines the rule of law, sound governance, and competitive business transactions, distorts social and human values, and raises political and moral concerns. According to Transparency International’s 2003...

Talking about money is hard for some people. Asking for money is even harder. People are afraid to deal with money issue. We as people have a hard time confronting our problems and would rather run away from them instead of face them head on....