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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
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Tag Archives: Thomas Piketty
Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
From Chad Jones: Since the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and their coathors has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth inequality. In this paper, I highlight some of the key empirical facts from this research and … Continue reading
The Macroeconomics of Piketty
From Chad Jones: Since the early 2000s, research by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and their coathors has revolutionized our understanding of income and wealth in- equality. In this paper, I highlight some of the key empirical facts from this re- … Continue reading
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Piketty Roundtable
HT: Paul Krugman
Krugman on Piketty
Krugman has an insightful post on Piketty’s recent book. I find this easiest to think of in terms of a numerical example. Let’s assume that s = .09 and initially n = .03. Then the capital-output ratio is 3; if … Continue reading
Weekend reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, ineuqality, Middle Class, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, weath
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Wealth Inequality since 1810
Via Emmanuel Saez’s lecture notes on capital income taxation
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Tagged Capital, capital income taxation, Capital Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, inequality, Thomas Piketty, Wealth
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Weekend Readings
1. Taxation and Saving – A Retrospective from Alan Auerbach 2. All men are created unequal – the economist on Piketty’s new book 3. Dealing with the Financial Crisis and the Recession from Brad Delong 4. The return of “patrimonial capitalism”: review of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Brad Delong, Branko Milanovic, Capital, Capital Taxation, capitalism, Depressed Economy, Depression Economics, Economist, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Growth, inequality, Labor Share, patrimonial capitalism, Taxation, Thomas Piketty, Tyler Cowen
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Rethinking capital and wealth taxation
From Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez: This paper reviews recent developments in the theory of optimal capital taxation. We emphasize three main rationales for capital taxation. First, the frontier between capital and labor income flows is often fuzzy, thereby lending … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, inequality, optimal taxation, Reform, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, Wealth
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Capital is Back: Wealth Ratios over Several Centuries
A nice post by Carola Binder on this paper is here.
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