{"id":16441,"date":"2014-04-15T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2014-04-15T21:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T19:56:39","slug":"new-analysis-of-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/new-analysis-of-income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"New Analysis of Income Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn\u2019t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has become a commonplace to say that we are living in a second Gilded Age\u2014or, as Piketty likes to put it, a second Belle \u00c9poque\u2014defined by the incredible rise of the \u201cone percent.\u201d But it has only become a commonplace thanks to Piketty\u2019s work. In particular, he and a few colleagues (notably Anthony Atkinson at Oxford and Emmanuel Saez at Berkeley) have pioneered statistical techniques that make it possible to track the concentration of income and wealth deep into the past\u2014back to the early twentieth century for America and Britain, and all the way to the late eighteenth century for France. \u00a0\u00a0Why We\u2019re in a New Gilded Age<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn\u2019t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t