aus unterschiedlichsten WIssenschaftsdisziplinen zu einer einzigen großen welt- und zeitumspannenden Theorie, die die …, die der Subsistenz entkommen ist? Wieso lebte die Masse der Menschheit noch bis Ende des 18. Jh. in Armut? Wie gelang der … liefert er erstmals eine allumfassende, evidenzbasierte Theorie über die gesamte wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsgeschichet der …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyse the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to the other EU-15 countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. The latter … decreasing. The cross country analysis yields several groups of countries according to their values of poverty and richness …

and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …