Extreme wealth is a critical yet overlooked driver of severe and growing national and international inequality, yet the metrics and tools to adequately address the issue are lacking. This is the premise upon which the Extreme Wealth Line initiative is founded.
This project builds on work by leading economists and inequality experts, and now looks to further the agenda from a cross-cutting, coordinated, international position.
The Initiative’s Strategy has three streams - academic, narrative and public.
The concept of an Extreme Wealth Line (EWL) aims to establish the point at which too much wealth concentrated in too few hands has direct negative effects on the likes of democracy, society, the economy and the environment.
An EWL would be positioned as an equivalent tool to the poverty line, enabling political action to address extreme wealth and reframe the conversation on inequality for a fairer economic system.
