? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

-opment? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

-opment? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

-opment? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

recovery in the 1930s, especially the New Deal. The role of income inequality before and during the Great Depression, however …, has almost never been discussed thoroughly. This paper attempts to answer two questions. Firstly, was inequality perceived … policy design did take seriously the problem of inequality? Using official documents such as transcripts of Roosevelt …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …