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The estate tax was enacted because of concerns about the impact of large concentrations of dynastic wealth on the …
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We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One … for redistribution after learning about the shape of the wealth distribution. In contrast, older participants decrease …
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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax … back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of …, the wealth tax is often not delivering the expected effects - a large share of the tax burden falls on people with low …
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