I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the last one hundred … increase in wealth concentration and the other two methods showing at best a small increase. I discuss strengths and weaknesses … incomes and the increased importance of self-made wealth may explain difficulties in implementing each of the methods and …

This paper presents new homogeneous series on top wealth shares from 1916 to 2000 in the United States using estate tax … return data. Top wealth shares were very high at the beginning of the period but have been hit sharply by the Great … wealth shares recovered in the early 1980s, but they are still much lower in 2000 than in the early decades of the century …

I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the last one hundred … increase in wealth concentration and the other two methods showing at best a small increase. I discuss strengths and weaknesses … incomes and the increased importance of self-made wealth may explain difficulties in implementing each of the methods and …