Many studies have shown that wealth inequality is even greater than income inequality and has increased in recent … decades. This issue of Policy in Focus is dedicated to wealth taxes, presenting various perspectives on whether they can be an … effective instrument for distributive and fiscal policies to promote a more inclusive recovery in a post-COVID-19 pandemic world. …

, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where … Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging … from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a …

timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 …Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

know rather little about the politics of wealth inequality, as opposed to income inequality, and hence how growth in wealth … inequality, per Piketty, might have political impacts over the coming decades both within and across countries. A further twist … of new sources of wealth, particularly housing, in defining contemporary political conflicts …

This paper tests the hypothesis that the presence of economic inequality may lead to erosions of economic freedom …. Using Economic Freedom of the World as a measure of free economic institutions, it finds that a one standard deviation … government. Surprisingly, the evidence is mixed for the effect of inequality on regulation, with modest evidence suggesting it …