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...
The distortive effects of Quantitative Easing policies
Izabella Kaminska cites in an FTAlphaville article different economists who regret Quantitative Easing actually entails more...
US inequalities's evolution through the crisis
In a FTAlphaville post, Cardiff Garcia commentates Stephen Rose’s findings about the transformation of inequality in the United State...
Redistribution is not the panacea...
In his Project Syndicate post, Ricardo Hausmann expounds his view on the causes of inequality. Inequalities stem from our modern...
