A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

While the ongoing discrimination against the southern states, the indirect imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit, and punitive ...

A new center at Rice University will bring together the insights of the social sciences and the power of computational ...

Under the post-war global order, the world avoided large-scale conflicts. It fostered the growth of democracies and was ...

2018, Book: "Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what ...

From September 2025, Camberwell College of Arts will move Illustration courses to its Wilson Road building. This location is a short 5-minute walk from our Peckham Road site. The building offers a ...

Meanwhile, my study found that highly educated people profess more liberal opinions on social norms than the poorly educated, but the divergence is greater in richer countries. In other words, in poor ...