Does a countrys level of inequality affect its ability to win Olympic medals? If it does, is it conditional on … institutional factors? We argue that the ability of economically free societies to win medals will not be affected by inequality. In … out those of inequality. In unfree societies, the incentives that promote investments in skills across the income …

Does a country's level of inequality affect its ability to win Olympic medals? If it does, is it conditional on … institutional factors? We argue that the ability of economically free societies to win medals will not be affected by inequality. In … out those of inequality. In unfree societies, the incentives that promote investments in skills across the income …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, "humanly devised" political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …

recovery in the 1930s, especially the New Deal. The role of income inequality before and during the Great Depression, however …, has almost never been discussed thoroughly. This paper attempts to answer two questions. Firstly, was inequality perceived … policy design did take seriously the problem of inequality? Using official documents such as transcripts of Roosevelt …