Rich people who support the objective of curbing extreme economic inequality should not be silenced by right-wing accusations of hypocrisy, writes Kaushik Basu

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen is a keen student of Adam Smith he tells JP O’Malley. But that doesn’t make him a blind follower of free market thinking

A conference by the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change will hear calls later today for the Government to introduce “a living wage”.

New Zealand will lodge formal protests with Britain, Japan and France over a shipment of nuclear fuel.