Category
page 1Economic inequality
income inequality
distribution of income or wealth between different groups
tragedy of the commons
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
real estate bubble
type of economic bubble
Kuznets curve
hypothesis about relationship between economic development and inequality level
Engel's law
empirical observation in economics that as income rises, less is spent on food
neo-feudalism
Neo-feudalism or new feudalism is a theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy, and public life, reminiscent of those which were present in many feudal societies. Such aspects include, but are not limited to: Unequal rights and legal protections for common people and for nobility, dominance of societies by a small and powerful elite, a lack of social mobility, and relations of lordship and serfdom between the elite and the people, where the former are rich and the latter poor.
pink tax
form of economic discrimination that occurs when women are charged a higher price than men for equivalent goods or services
Pyramid of Capitalist System
cartoon critique against capitalism
eat the rich
anticapitalist political motto; abbreviation of a saying attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau
affordable housing
housing affordable to those with a median household income
Robin Hood effect
economic occurence
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley
Brandt Report
1980 economic report
Motherhood penalty
impact on working mothers
Cake theory
Chinese political metaphor
International inequality
inequality between nations' wealth
bottom of the pyramid
concept
Great Gatsby curve
economical chart plotting inequality and intergenerational social immobility

level playing field
ensuring fairness
list of countries by distribution of wealth
Wikimedia list article
Female labor force in the Muslim world
involvement of Muslim women in labor
involuntary unemployment
when people are without work and actively seeking work, and are willing to work at the prevailing wage but still unemployed
rat tribe
low-income migrant workers in China
cream skimming
providing a product or a service to only the high-value or low-cost customers of that product or service, while disregarding clients that are less profitable for the company; choosing only attractive parts
Great Compression
a decade of extraordinary wage compression in the United States in the early 1940s
income disparity in Malaysia
income inequality in Malaysia
economic mobility
people's ability to improve their economic status over the course of their lifetimes.
vibecession
Vibecession is a neologism describing a disconnect between a country's economic indicators and the public's negative perception of the economy. The term was coined by economic commentator Kyla Scanlon in a June 2022 newsletter discussing Americans' attitudes toward inflation and recession fears. A portmanteau of "vibe" and "recession", the term refers to situations where economic data shows growth or stability, yet people feel as if they are living through a recession. Scanlon described it as "the vibes of a recession, but maybe not the economic reality of one (yet)."
plutonomy
Plutonomy (; a portmanteau of plutocracy and economy) is the science of production and distribution of wealth.
Dagum distribution
Probability distribution in economics