Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century posits the return r on capital to be larger than the economic growth rate g as a main driver of inequalities. This article points out the circumstances under which the reverse inference holds. We show that increasing inequality promotes increasing...

In this paper, we prove that in a simple model of income determination, when taking into account linear functions, the change rate for the gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to the quotient of the increase in investment and the sum of exogenous consumption plus the initial investment. This...