Did Piketty forget the risk?
Hasset and Auerbach challenge Piketty’s solution to inequality: a global wealth tax. To remind the reader, Piketty justifies this...
The sharing economy, a new way to reduce inequality?
Jeremy Rifkin argues that the « sharing economy », a system gathering suppliers of underused assets and demanders for low transaction...
Inequality: what can central banks do about it ?
A speech by Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England (BoE), questions the role of monetary authorities in tackling...
The concentration of wealth at the tippety-tip-top
Inequality of income is well established. This post shows evidence of wealth concentration at the top 0,1% and even the 0,01% of the...
Focusing on quality rather than quantity: a new measure of growth
In a context of rising inequality, M. Mlachila, R. Tapsoba, S. Tapsoba developed a new approach to measure the quality of growth. Their...
Are redistribution policies "anti-growth"?
In this IMF paper, Ostry et al. assume inequality is detrimental to growth and wonder whether redistribution policies are pro- or...
The AEA's focus on inequality
Cardiff Garcia reviews (in an FTAlphaville entry) some themes addressed at the latest American Economic Association’s Conference. He...