Wealth Inequality

In this interview, Branko Milanovic discusses what the writings of four classical economists reveal about their perceptions of income inequality.

B. Callaghan, L. Harouni, C. H. Dupree, M. W. Kraus, and J. A. Richeson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 118, no. 38. 2021.

In this interview, University of Michigan sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, who is a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses his recent paper, coauthored with Nora Waitkus of the London School of Economics and Tilburg University, on cross-national patterns of wealth inequality.

A. B. Kennickell. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 37. 2021.

A working paper by Paolo Acciari, Facundo Alvaredo, and Salvatore Morelli uses a novel source to shed light on the wealth distribution from 1995 to 2016.​

P. Acciari, F. Alvaredo, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 36. Revised 2023.

F. T. Pfeffer and N. Waitkus. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 35. 2021.

Y. Berman and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 31. 2021.

B. Nolan, J. Palomino, P. Van Kerm, and S. Morelli. Economics Letters. vol. 199. 2021.

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog, Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University discusses why reducing inequality may be essential for growth.