income. We argue that instead of using yearly income, one should measure wealth tax burdens with respect to individual … concept can be established. Under our preferred income concept, the wealth tax shows advantageous distributional effects - it …Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax …

, especially if taxes and income support are included, in many countries in the developing world and the US. A focus on inequality … driven by technology and globalisation, not by poor corporate governance. And the returns to wealth being (relatively) high … should be expected given the riskiness of owning wealth, and is actually necessary to ensure that investment occurs …

aussagekräftige Daten und eine überzeugende Theorie fehlten. In Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert analysiert Thomas Piketty ein …

This essay is a comprehensive and critical review of Thomas Piketty s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It follows …

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the … Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its … distribution, review current capital tax practices and empirical findings regarding their effects on economic activity. The paper …