While Warren Buffet’s ‘buy low, sell high’ strategy has proven extremely successful for himself, it’s challenging for those without significant financial resources.
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Cate Blanchett’s claim to be ‘middle class’ isn’t unique among the wealthy, or even the 1% she’s part of. Downplaying privilege among elites contributes to the problem of wealth inequality.
Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
Corruption imposes mental health costs on individuals.
New research shows only 3% of the population paid any capital gains tax in the last decade.
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
Removing certain reliefs would raise revenues that could be used to fund a cut in the headline rate or increased public spending.
The historical correlation between economic prosperity and increased life expectancy might suggest that growth is generally a good thing. However, other evidence points to the downside of growth.
Britain’s most famous iconoclast presents a show of humour, beauty, and irreverence that reflects the complexities and contradictions in being human.
A prenuptial agreement can help millennial couples navigate concerns about student debt in their marriage.
Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
One of the gifts that Prime Minister Modi gave to President Biden symbolizes the recipient’s having seen 1,000 full moons, implying a long and auspicious life.
Money may not buy you happiness, but a favourite keepsake can boost happiness and wellbeing.
Forget wealth or capital gains taxes, a straight tax on housing equity – exempting most homeowners – would be a simple and efficient way to break the circuit of inequality.
Education, contacts and luck can play a considerable role when it comes to building up wealth.
New Zealand’s ‘one percent’ pay lower tax rates than ordinary earners – just don’t expect any big changes to tax policy in the near future.
A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
Why are we so utterly in thrall to upper-crust tales of privilege, riches and scandal? Because it’s a great story of wealth, heritage and survival in the modern world.
Research shows differences in how people set savings goals that could contribute to a wealth gap between men and women in the UK.
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
