inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality … billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the effect of politically connected wealth inequality is negative …

is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship between economic development, institutions, and these contrasting … ones consistent with billionaires. Further, only the latter are consistent with the institutions that underlie economic … billionaires. But self-employed entrepreneurs don't. Where private property rights are weakly protected and interventionist …

The planet has a billionaire problem. According to Oxfam, the world’s billionaires have more combined wealth than the … billionaire class. But how do we make that happen? We think that part of the answer is to understand billionaire’s network of … control. Many billionaires are happy to have their net worth tracked by Forbes — they treat it as an accumulation horse race.1 …

. Forget about character traits and personal histories. We don’t need them. To predict how many billionaires a country has, we …

During the pandemic, the world’s billionaires increased their net worth to unprecedented historical heights. This was … caused by the global health crisis. Whether billionaires have profited during the pandemic, or whether billionaires have … billionaire wealth. In the third section, I briefly consider whether billionaires should exist and canvass some recent proposals …