policy design did take seriously the problem of inequality? Using official documents such as transcripts of Roosevelt … 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 …

capitalism, the Great Depression. However, the role of rising income inequality, which has risen dramatically before both crises …, is rarely discussed. In this paper we discuss the rise of top-end inequality and its effects on household consumption … period of interest. We argue that income inequality is linked to the increase of household consumption and the simultaneous …

wealth and income inequality at the cost of negative effects on capital, labor, and output. Finally, these theoretical …

Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …

main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on within …-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who aspire to match … social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. …

The paper examines the determinants of income and wealth inequality in a Kaldorian model where the profit share adjusts … increasing inequality in income and wealth since the early 1980s, including the shift of the power relation in corporate firms in … growth reduces inequality of income and wealth in this Kaldorian framework. …

This paper analyses the joint long-run evolution of wealth and income inequality. We show that top wealth and income …