At least not according to the dominant narrative. Branko Milanovic, one of the worldâs leading experts in global income inequality, argues that while inequality is getting worse within countries, on a global scale it is actually getting better. We can measure income inequality with the Gini index.
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in Chicago in 1850, was long the nation's largest and most proficient private detective agency. For corporate Americaânotably railroads, mines, and others involved in interstate commerceâit stood as an effective check on troublemakers within and without.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency conjures up all kinds of imagesâthe hard-boiled private eye, the undercover detective, the labor enforcer. The agency has had an extremely torrid history, with all sorts of things happening through the decades. Some of the stories of the Pinkerton detectives are the stuff of crime novels.