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.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/p60191.htmlAddressing 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.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.waldron/
Capitalist Policies
Position paper that such policies lead to social and economic inequality. By Ramin Farahmandpur.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/issues/99/10.18/view.farahmandpur.html
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.
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/globaljustice.php
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.
http://www.gwu.edu/~econ270/Taejoon.html
Closing the Wealth Gap
A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income disparity.
http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-pjo061897.html
CONVERGE project
Organization dedicated to analysis of Economic and technological regional convergence in Europe. Provides conference descriptions, case studies, and research.
http://www.iseg.utl.pt/cisep/converge
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.
http://www.justpeace.org/structures/squeeze.htm
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.
http://www.unitedearth.com.au/HNHinterview.html
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.
http://www.igc.apc.org/globalpolicy/socecon/inequal/indexinq.htm
Poverty, Inequality and Development: Research at Cornell University
Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty
The Causes of Income Inequality
Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.
http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/pd/economy/ecob2.html
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."
http://www.hazlitt.org/e-texts/poverty/
The L-Curve
Graphically describes and criticizes income distribution in the United States.
http://www.lcurve.org/
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.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR21.6/inequality.html
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 i
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu
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".
http://www.faireconomy.org/
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