The World Top Incomes Database experiences a growing success

Presented for the first time in January 2011 during the conference by T. Atkinson and T. Piketty given at PSE within the G-MonD, this website has since experienced growing success.
Built to accompany the publishing of the two books Top Incomes : a Global Perspective (2010, Oxford University Press) andTop Incomes over the XXth Century (2007, Oxford University Press), this website offers the most comprehensive set of historical series on income inequality available so far. In the 2010 book, the authors analyze the long term evolution of top incomes in 12 new countries (after the 10 initial countries analysed in the 2007 book). The results presented in the books and the website have considerably renewed our knowledge of the long run dynamics of inequality. In particular, they radically question Kuznets’ optimistic hypothesis on the interplay between economic development and the distribution of income.

Go the website “The World Top Incomes Database”

Detailed link : http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/

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