or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …

reform that is funded by higher taxes on labour income while households with little wealth would prefer a reform that is … funded mostly by high taxes on initial wealth. Pareto improving reforms typically exist, but the welfare gains of such …

‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … US. There are two potential explanations. First, Europeans prefer more equal societies (inequality belongs in the utility … ideological lines. There is evidence of ‘inequality generated’ unhappiness in the US only for a sub-group of rich leftists. In …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …