Long-Term Trends in Income and Wealth Inequality in Southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
G. Alfani and S. Sardone. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 95. 2024.
The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries
S. Morelli, B. Nolan, J. C. Palomino, and P. Van Kerm. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 94. 2024.
How Individuals Misperceive Their Relative Wealth, and the Implications for Policy
A new working paper by Pirmin Fessler of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) and Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Severin Rapp analyzes the connection between individuals’ biased perceptions of their rank on the wealth distribution, and their savings behavior.
The Subjective Wealth Distribution: How it Arises and Why it Matters to Inform Policy?
P. Fessler and S. Rapp. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 92. 2024.
Richer and More Equal? A Conversation between Salvatore Morelli and Daniel Waldenström
Salvatore Morelli, the director of the GC Wealth Project and a Stone Center Senior Scholar, and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström discuss Waldenström's new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West.
Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality Using the Distribution of Estates
F. Alvaredo, Y. Berman, and S. Morelli. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 91. 2024.
Leaving Legacies and Liabilities: The Distribution of Wealth at Death
F. Disslbacher and S. Rapp. Stone Center Working Paper. no. 90. 2024.
Wealth and Welfare: Do Private and Public Safety Nets Compensate for Asset Poverty?
S. Rapp and S. Humer. Social Inclusion. vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 176–186. 2023.
On the Super-Involvement of the Super-Rich in U.S. Politics: Guido Alfani
In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani reflects on the increasing influence of the super-rich in U.S. politics, and the risk this poses to democratic institutions and equality of access to the political process.
How Rich Were the Rich? An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Pre-Industrial Bases of Wealth
B. Milanovic. Explorations in Economic History. vol. 93. 2024.