Wealth Inequality in America - Shockingly Brilliant Video
In 2023, the top10%of the world owned nearly three-quarters of the world’s wealth, according to the World Inequality Database. But where in the world is wealth inequality the highest? This graphic visualizes the 10 countries with the most wealth inequality as measured by the Gini index, ...
Visualizing Wealth Inequality by Country Charted: Growth in U.S. Real Wages, by Income Group (1979-2023) Charted: What Frustrates Americans About the Tax System Charted: Which City Has the Most Billionaires in 2024? Subscribe Join the 375,000+ subscribers who receive our daily email Sign...
Wealth and inequality 2. Measuring trends in wealth inequality Part II. Wealth Distribution: 3. Who owns what? the changing distribution of wealth 4. The rich and their wealth 5. The rest of the distribution: the middle class and poor 6. Are Americans getting richer? Part III. Wealth ...
I keep running across blog posts showing the inequality of income and wealth in America. In a recent post I already discussed one reason why this data is fatally flawed, capital income is nothing like wage income—rather it is deferred consumption. Cou
Saez and Zucman released another working paper this week, which studies capitalized income data to get a picture of how wealth inequality in America, rather than income inequality, has evolved since 1913. (Income inequality describes the gap in how much individuals earn from the work they do and...
World's richest man tries to defend wealth inequality A review of French economist Thomas Piketty's best-selling book Capital in the 21st Century by the world's richest man is too delicious to ignore. The main takeaway from Piketty's book, of course, is that we need to worry about the ...
(2017). Race, skin tone, and wealth inequality in America. In L. L. Martin, D. D. Horton . C. Herring, V. M. Keith, & M. Thomas (Ed.), Color Struck: How Race and complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era. (pp. 1-17). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.....
In South Africa, high levels of wealth inequality have persisted since 1994, to the extent that 1% of the population owns 50% of the wealth. This study examines how macroeconomic policies influenced wealth inequality in South Africa over the period 2010 to 2019 using a behavioural life-cycle mo...