The Economics of Inequality

By Thomas Piketty, A. Goldhammer. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Thomas Piketty
2. G. Zucman
3. Thomas Kneib
4. N. Klein
5. A. Cobb
6. Stefan Lang
7. Michael W. Kraus
8. Alexander Sohn

In Finance

1. Thomas Piketty
2. G. Zucman
3. A. Cobb
4. N. Klein
5. Stefan Lang
6. Dacher Keltner
7. Thomas Kneib
8. Paul K. Piff

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Michael W. Kraus
2. Dacher Keltner
3. G. Zucman
4. Paul K. Piff
5. Thomas Kneib
6. N. Klein
7. Thomas Piketty
8. A. Cobb

Citations in the corpus

• Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “…nature of valued networks (i.e., that upper-class individuals are preferentially granted access to them), it is perhaps unsurprising that educational, social, and economic opportunities have become concentrated among the privileged few (Chetty, Hendren, Kline, & Saez, 2014; Piketty, 2015).”
• Bayesian structured additive distributional regression with an application to regional income inequality in Germany (2015, background): “ an economic perspective [see Arnold (2008), page 122], it has the advantage that it makes the vast statistical inference machinery built around Gaussian regression available to researchers. However, Atkinson (1975) and others have noted that, at least for the aggregate income distribution, the log-”
• How Firms Shape Income Inequality: Stakeholder Power, Executive Decision Making, and the Structuring of Employment Relationships (2015, background): “The choice of measure is important as it contains "implicit judgments about the weight to be attached to inequality at different points on the income scale" (Atkinson, 1975: 47).”
• Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (2014, background): “…to wait until 1894 for the unification of inheritance taxation (until this date the rules were different for personal and real estate taxes), and until the early 1920s 17 See, e.g., Atkinson (1983) and Saez and Zucman (2014). for unified statistics to be established by the U.K. tax administration.”