know about economics, money and capital. Finally, it includes analysis and comments on the work of Thomas Piketty 'Capital …

The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to … work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality …

modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II …What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long …-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political …

income and wealth inequality that has accompanied the rise in the wealth/income ratio, especially in the US and Britain; on … the relationship between the rate of return on capital and the economic growth rate; on the ties between rising income … rise in the ratio of household wealth to GDP in the rich countries since the 1980s and the role played by the build-up of …

reforms on income and wealth inequality in post-socialist countries, employing a variant of the difference … wealth shares. Our findings show that flat tax reforms have significantly increased income inequality, with top income shares …-in-differences method. Our analysis covers a panel of countries from 1994 to 2015, assessing changes in top, middle, and bottom income and …

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support … for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … release income information on Finland's top earners to the public. To identify causal effects we compare respondents who took …

inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …