Recent insights from the philosopher Larry Temkin have suggested a new basis for the measurement of income inequality …

As embodied in the concept of "inequality extraction" (Branko Milanovic), it is not possible to increase inequality … (especially income inequality) in a society sustainably to levels beyond what is actually socially acceptable (and even less to … comparisons of inequality levels on the country (or the regional) level and for poorer societies in general, adaptations for the …

Motivated by the lack of previous research on historical inequality in Central Europe, this paper constructs wealth … inequality statistics for a larger town in South Bohemia, Budweis. The data sources are rare detailed local tax censuses from … groups and processed to create social tables. If the underlying data are accurate, the wealth inequality Gini coefficient in …