An expert on Economics, Chuck Collins is director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is also founder and director of Business for Shared Prosperity, a national network of business leaders supporting “high road” economic policies.

His most recent book, co-authored with Mary Wright of JustFaith, The Moral Measure of the Economy (Orbis 2007), examines Catholic social teaching perspectives on economic life. He is an expert on inequality in the U.S. and author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New Press, 2005). He coordinates a national effort to preserve the federal estate tax, our nation’s only tax on inherited wealth. He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., Wealth and Our Commonwealth, a case for taxing inherited fortunes.