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 …

What do we know about wealth inequality and democracy? Our review shows that the
simple conjectures that democracy produces wealth equality and that wealth inequality …

Drawing on a unique dataset of leaked customer lists from offshore financial institutions
matched to administrative wealth records in Scandinavia, we show that offshore tax evasion …

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about
intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the …

Drawing on newly published macroeconomic statistics, this paper estimates the amount of
household wealth owned by each country in offshore tax havens. The equivalent of 10% of …

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 …

We document five facts about the distributional income effects of monetary policy shocks
using Swedish administrative individual-level data.(i) The effects of monetary policy shocks …

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit in the medium to long run, focusing on
trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model …

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 …

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 …