If Piketty's main theoretical prediction (r>g leads to rising wealth inequality) is taken to its radical conclusion …, then a small elite will own all wealth if capitalism is left to its own devices. We formulate and calibrate a Post …-Keynesian model with an endogenous distribution of wealth between workers and capitalists which permits such a corner solution of all …

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This chapter offers an overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the long-run evolution of wealth and … inheritance. Wealth–income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries … show that over a wide range of models, the long-run magnitude and concentration of wealth and inheritance are an increasing …

We employ a novel approach for analyzing the effects of relative consumption and relative wealth preferences on both … to measure the strength of the relative consumption and the relative wealth motive. We go beyond the sole consideration … also affects the strength of the relative wealth motive and the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. …

. Finally, an investor's style is explained by life course theory in that experiences, both earlier and later in life, are …