"Grüne" Investitionen können in einem europäischen Wachstumspaket eine zentrale Rolle einnehmen, da sie kurzfristig spürbare Beschäftigungsimpulse und mittel- bis langfristig positive fiskalische Effekte auslösen können. Die Summe der zusätzlichen "grünen" Investitionen könnte die...

L'élaboration de nouveaux indicateurs de prospérité (NIP) fait l'objet d'un intérêt grandissant auprès de nombreux acteurs et instances (ONGs, académiques, société civile, institutions regionales, nationales et internationales). Cet article traite des conditions d'institutionnalisation,...

Proper understanding of the determinants of household CO2 emissions is essential for a shift to sustainable lifestyles. This paper explores the impacts of date of birth and income on household CO2 emissions in France and in the USA. Direct CO2 emissions of French and American households are...

This article presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages for 1922--2000 in India using individual tax return data. The data show that the shares of the top 0.01 percent, 0.1 percent, and 1 percent in total income shrank substantially from the 1950s to the early to mid-1980s but then...

When a lengthy book is widely discussed in academic circles and the popular media, it is probably inevitable that the arguments of the book will be simplified in the telling and retelling. In the case of my book <em>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</em> (2014), a common simplification of the main...

We then analyze top income and top tax rate data in 18 OECD countries. There is a strong correlation between cuts in top tax rates and increases in top 1% income shares since 1975, implyingthat the overall elasticity is large. But top income share increases have not translated into higher...