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1. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

   In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

2. Oxfam report on the wealthy conflates Bill Gates with Carlos Slim

   A recent report from Oxfam has sparked concerns over wealth inequality in Canada. Unfortunately, discussions about wealth inequality too often overlook a critical point—how wealth is accumulated. This matters for any assessment about the ...

3. Inequality—how income and wealth are earned matters

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, July 23, 2016 Inequality has become an animating issue for much of the political class. The Canadian federal government, in its recent budget, devoted an entire section to inequality. Unfortunately, almost no analysis to-date ...

4. How Income and Wealth are "Earned" Matters in Understanding Inequality

   This paper examines a key missing piece of the inequality debate: differences in how income is earned and wealth accumulated that ultimately result in inequality. Put simply, how income is earned or wealth amassed matters with respect to the degree to ...