This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first
reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax …

Thomas Piketty's recent book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) is a timely and
important contribution that turns our attention to striking long-run trends in economic …

“The most important book on government policy that I've read in a long time.”—David
Leonhardt, New York Times Even as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich …

We review recent scholarship relevant to the pursuit of sustainable development. We find a
compelling argument that the interactions of nature and society in the Anthropocene …

This paper combines income tax returns with macroeconomic household balance sheets to
estimate the distribution of wealth in the United States since 1913. We estimate wealth by …

IN 1HE middle of the twentieth century, it came to be believed that'a rising tide lifts all boats':
economic growth would bring increasing wealth and higher living standards to all sections of …

In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater
efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David …

“Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.”—Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen, article 1, 1789 The distribution of wealth is one of today's most widely …

Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G Williamson have
charted the history of American incomes‐and income inequality‐since colonial times. Here …

The past forty years have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality in the United States.
While there is a large number of existing theories of the Pareto tail of the long‐run income …