We examine shifts in British income inequality and their causes between 1911 and 1949. Newly re-discovered Inland Revenue 1911 estimates and more detailed data from subsequent official income distribution enquiries are used to show that income was substantially more concentrated at the top of...

Panel research assessment and the use of metrics in evaluating the quality of academics and the institutions in which they work has become an increasingly ubiquitous activity. The assessment of new knowledge derived via research is controversial, and how that evaluation occurs may have important...