Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, discusses several factors affecting wealth inequality: rates of return on capital, output growth rates, tax progressivity, top income shares, and h
Estimated differences in total individual wealth by various characteristics in April 2018 to March 2020, using data from the Wealth and Assets Survey with geographical coverage of Great Britain.
I find that median wealth plummeted over the years 2007 to 2010, and by 2010 was at its lowest level since 1969. The inequality of net worth, after almost two decades of little movement, was up sharpl