answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth … distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other, depends on how a certain distribution of income and wealth has come …

destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and … therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world circumstances characterized by suboptimal … institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the …

This paper studies the evolution of modern Swedish wealth taxation since its introduction in 1911 until it was … schedules to characterize effective wealth tax schedules for the period 1911–2006. These rules and schedules are used to … calculate marginal and average wealth tax rates for the whole period for a number of differently endowed owners of family firms …

their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …