Wealth, poverty and inequality

A study of Lima's informal economy and the legal costs that keep the poor outside it.

How the Chicago mob ran Las Vegas casinos, told through bookie Frank Rosenthal.

A portrait of Canada's business elite in 1975, from hundreds of interviews.

An investigation of a place living under the rule of a murderous crime organisation.

Brazil's billionaires during the boom, and what their fortunes say about inequality.

The drug trade as a business: how cartels handle supply chains, staff and branding.

How the offshore world lets officials who steal money hide it and spend it abroad.

Crony capitalism, promoter leverage and the bad-loan crisis.

How the global elite's efforts to change the world keep the status quo in place.

Case studies of extraction from acquired companies.

How the internet can spread generosity and make giving a force for good.

Consumer-side account of how insurers make money.

Collected 1980s finance essays

How the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.

Sociologist embedded with a gang; an informal economy's incentive structure

Polemical, but the case for bond-market financing over aid is argued in investor terms.

Sceptical audit of what microfinance evidence actually supports.

Commodity desks at banks and funds after the 2008 boom.

A critique of the Gates Foundation and the rise of philanthrocapitalism.

A sociologist trains as a wealth manager to show how fortunes are shielded offshore.

Concentration of wealth, land and market power among a few families.

Wealth, land and conservation in the American West.

Concentration traced sector by sector through its effects on customers.

An investigative case against the power of the Gates Foundation.

Survey research showing most American millionaires live modestly and save hard.

Why foreign aid, investment and other remedies failed to make tropical nations rich.

How companies can serve the world's poor profitably and reduce poverty in doing so.

A novel: 17 super-rich Americans, Warren Buffett among them, unite to fix government.

A memoir of moving from international banking to founding Acumen, an impact investor.

Weak securities enforcement and what it costs minority shareholders.

The long-run dynamics of wealth and inequality, and why capital concentrates.

Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.

Chance shapes success more than people think; what that means for fairer economies.

Why key information failed to reach doctors in West Africa's Ebola epidemic.

Why family farms lose ground to consolidated ownership.

The emptying of America's mental hospitals, told through one mentally ill brother.

Why fewer American children now have a chance to move up as inequality widens.

Poverty around the world in its hopelessness, brutality, pride and fear.