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.
Kathrene and Robert Pinkerton - husband and wife writing team. [ 1 Many people have, at some time or other, thought of escaping civilization and heading out to the wide open spaces. 2  Kathrene and Robert Pinkerton, a husband and wife author team who wrote stories of the Frozen North for Adventure, did just that. Robert was ordered by his doctor to get away from the city.