Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the office...
Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?
Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...
The Patriotic Millionaires share a deep concern about America's destabilizing levels of economic and political inequality, the root cause of current social unrest in the US. They seek to reform the US political economy so that it naturally creates greater economic and political equality, enabling th...
The annual World Wealth Report is the global benchmark for capturing the High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs), their wealth, and the global and economic conditions driving change in the wealth management industry.
Less is more. How degrowth will save the world.
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will le...
Intergenerational wealth transmission and homeownership in Europe–a comparative perspective
Abstract
The literature on social and wealth inequality has long acknowledged the importance of intergenerational wealth transmission (IWT) to inequality in homeownership tenure. However, it has paid insu...