PPT-Income and Wealth Inequality in the U.S.

Causes and Consequences Eshragh Motahar Fall 2016 Introduction What do we mean by inequality Income pretax posttax Wealth Is it inevitable Historical context What is new Why should we care about it . st. century. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. Madrid. , January . 8. 2015. This . presentation. . is. . based. . upon. . Capital in the 21. st. . century. . (Harvard . University. (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas . Piketty. Academic year 2013-2014 . Lecture 5: The structure of inequality: labor income. (Tuesday . January 7. th. . 2014). (check . on line. (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year 2014-2015 . Lecture 5: The structure of inequality: labor income. (. Tuesday November 4. th. 2014). (check . on line. : . Inequality. , corporate persons and an impoverished discipline . Paul Leighton. American Society of Criminology, 2012. This presentation is adapted from a longer invited lecture. , . The . Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Inequality, Corporate Power and . : . The Rich Get Richer . and the Poor Get Prison . Paul Leighton. Star Lecture. EMU Honors College. Sept 2013. http://occuprint.org/. . The creators of any graphics used in this presentation who want attribution or removal should contact me through my website, . GINI Coefficients. Author: Zack Beamer. How severe is income inequality?. How can this be measured?. Ratio of CEO to Worker pay. †:. 354 to 1. Workers: $34,645. S&P 500 CEOs: $12,259,894. Is this a rigorous method of measuring inequality?. Twenty-First . Century. Joseph E. Stiglitz. International Economic Association World Congress. Mexico City. June 2017. What is to be explained?. Enormous increase in inequality in income and wealth over past third of a century. Daniel Waldenström. Uppsala University. Winter School. in Inequality and Social Welfare, Canazei, 2012. 1. Outline of talk. Introduction: Role of wealth in inequality trends. Wealth concentration over the path of development. Causes and Consequences. Eshragh Motahar. Fall 2016. Introduction. What do we mean by inequality. Income (pre-tax, post-tax), Wealth. Is it inevitable. Historical context. What is new?. Why should we care about it . century. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. Buenos Aires. , . January . 16 . 2015. This . presentation. . is. . based. . upon. . Capital in the 21. st. . century. . (Harvard . University. Walter . Scheidel. (Stanford University). Argument. Violence has been the single most important means of leveling wealth and income inequality in human history. 4 principal mechanisms:. Mass mobilization war. through. . tax. . policy. . Income. and Capital . Tax. Options . Thomas Piketty. Paris . School. of . Economics. Brussels, . Progressive . Economy. . Conference. . December. . 5. 2013. Issues to be . addressed by the HLEG subgroup on income and wealth inequality. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. OECD, . January 16. th. 2014. « W. ork. under the “income and wealth inequality” theme would take stock of... Slides . based on the book by Jäger/Springler: . Ökonomie. der . Internationalen. . Entwicklung. . . Eine. . kritische. . Einführung. in die . Volkswirtschaftslehre. Chapter . 5. :. Inequality and the distribution of income and wealth.