by Evatt Foundation | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 17
Editorial The return of the concept of ‘class’ to mainstream public debate is an unanticipated feature of the second decade of the new century. Whether defined by people’s relationship to production or distribution, or as a hybrid of economic and cultural identities,...
by John Menadue | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 17
Elizabeth Evatt recently called for a Human Rights Act to protect all our rights and freedoms and not just freedom of religion. The issue of freedom of religion is being examined by Phillip Ruddock and his ‘expert panel’. This issue is also being examined by a Joint...
by Evatt Foundation | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 17
Following is a selection of news, research and other developments in relation to economic inequality that has not been separately reported since the last issue of the Evatt Journal: The rate of return on everything In late December 2017, the US National Bureau of...
by Thomas Piketty | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 17
Rising inequality & the changing structure of political conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017) Income inequality has increased substantially in most world regions since the 1980s, albeit at different speeds (see Alvaredo et al, World...
by Jim Stanford | May 4, 2018 | Issue 1, Journal, News, Volume 17
Donald Trump’s bellicose policies, including new tariffs on steel and aluminium, have raised fears of a worldwide slide into protectionism and trade conflict. The US president’s unilateral and xenophobic approach to trade policy is reprehensible and dangerous...
by Elizabeth Evatt | Dec 22, 2017 | News
The proposal to legislate for freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as provided in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a half measure which would leave other rights and freedoms without equivalent protection. And it may not produce the...
