Ramadan encourages individuals and societies to reassess consumption patterns, prioritize generosity, and realign economic activity with moral and communal values.

Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" documents the increase in inequality in recent decades, and it has rekindled an old debate about the effects of income redistribution on ...

Her economic policies were obviously thin gruel. Her $25,000 payment to first-time homebuyers would be vacuumed up by sellers, her ban on “price gouging” was directed at notoriously competitive ...

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is famous for touting income redistribution, particularly SNAP (the food stamp program) and unemployment benefits, as an engine for economic growth. People who ...

Recent psychological research suggests that political views on wealth redistribution are driven by deep-seated evolutionary motives rather than just economic logic. New evidence indicates that the ...

The opinion pages, economic journals and liberal websites are atwitter (a-Twitter?) these days over French economist Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Left-wingers cite Piketty's ...

The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering ...

Taxes collected by the U.S. government are paid out through transfers that promote economic equity among states. This system redistributes funds between richer and poorer states over the long run and ...

Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to ...