This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID …. Long-run wealth inequality dynamics appear to be highly unstable. We stress the need for more democratic transparency on …

The U.S. both tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's. These … attitudes and beliefs help account for differences in the magnitude of redistribution through taxation and social welfare … spending. In fact, the U.S. and Europe had roughly equal rates of inter-generational occupational mobility in the late …

The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U ….S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased … much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these …

income inequality provide plausible explanations. Britain and the US had different patterns of income growth but similar … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and …