Recent reviews indicate that research on wealth in Australia has been limited by a lack of reliable data. The Economic Consequences of Marital Breakdown Survey containing data on the wealth of couples about to divorce, and items from the National Social Science Survey, provide new data for...

In descending order of robustness and strength, the four major conclusions are: (i) the experience of industrial countries in the postwar period indicates that a large welfare state has been associated with a high rate of economic growth; (ii) the Olson thesis that powerful special interest...