Add to ORKGAbstract Since the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and their coathors has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth inequality. In this paper, I highlight some of the key empirical facts from this research and comment on how they relate to macroeconomics and to economic theory more generally. Top inequality is tightly linked to Pareto distributions. The paper describes simple mechanisms that give rise to this Pareto inequality and considers the economic forces that influence top inequality over time and across countries
The popularity of Thomas Piketty?s research on wealth inequality has drawn attention to a curious qu...
Inequality of wealth and income is currently a hotly debated subject not only in the academy but als...
In his influential book Capital in 21st Century, Thomas Piketty gathered historical data to understa...
Thomas Piketty’s evidence on wealth distribution trends in Capital in the Twenty- First Ce...
This inquiry seeks to establish that, in his Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty adv...
The book 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' by the French economist Piketty about the inequality ...
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century proposes a critical analysis of the dynamics of...
Note from the editor Inequality: A "Piketty et al." Moment in the Social Sciences How Did the Great ...
French economist Thomas Piketty's bestseller, Capital in the TwentyFirst Century, provocatively clai...
What does the world success of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (2014) reveal? This book is ...
This paper proposes that one major explanation of growing inequality in the United States (US) is th...
This paper attempts to explain the recent substantial increase in income inequality, which is largel...
Using the data series produced from the collective research project on the dynamics of income distri...
In Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty takes a central liberal claim about economic inequality seri...
Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870-2011 this paper tests the Pikett...
The popularity of Thomas Piketty?s research on wealth inequality has drawn attention to a curious qu...
Inequality of wealth and income is currently a hotly debated subject not only in the academy but als...
In his influential book Capital in 21st Century, Thomas Piketty gathered historical data to understa...
Thomas Piketty’s evidence on wealth distribution trends in Capital in the Twenty- First Ce...
This inquiry seeks to establish that, in his Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty adv...
The book 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' by the French economist Piketty about the inequality ...
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century proposes a critical analysis of the dynamics of...
Note from the editor Inequality: A "Piketty et al." Moment in the Social Sciences How Did the Great ...
French economist Thomas Piketty's bestseller, Capital in the TwentyFirst Century, provocatively clai...
What does the world success of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (2014) reveal? This book is ...
This paper proposes that one major explanation of growing inequality in the United States (US) is th...
This paper attempts to explain the recent substantial increase in income inequality, which is largel...
Using the data series produced from the collective research project on the dynamics of income distri...
In Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty takes a central liberal claim about economic inequality seri...
Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870-2011 this paper tests the Pikett...
The popularity of Thomas Piketty?s research on wealth inequality has drawn attention to a curious qu...
Inequality of wealth and income is currently a hotly debated subject not only in the academy but als...
In his influential book Capital in 21st Century, Thomas Piketty gathered historical data to understa...