Income and Wealth Inequality
Income and Wealth Inequality
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收入和财富不平等
DOI：
10.1093/oso/9780197518199.003.0003
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
Emmanuel Saez
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作者：
Emmanuel Saez
本章作者认为，经济学家的首要任务是通过提供广大公众可以理解的透明措施来启发有关收入和财富不平等的辩论。一旦不平等得到适当衡量，我们就可以了解不平等趋势的驱动因素以及公共政策对不平等的影响。本章借鉴作者之前发表的作品，提供了有关美国收入和财富不平等的证据。它提供了关于最高收入和财富份额以及按收入群体划分的经济增长分配的系列。作者从历史和比较的角度讨论了美国收入和财富不平等演变背后的机制，并分析了公共政策，特别是税收在不平等演变中的作用。
According to the author of this chapter, the first job of economists is to enlighten the debate on income and wealth inequality by providing transparent measures that the broad public can understand. Once inequality is appropriately measured, we can then understand the drivers of inequality trends and the effects of public policy on inequality. Drawing on the author’s previously published works, this chapter presents evidence on US income and wealth inequality. It presents series for top income and wealth shares and for the distribution of economic growth by income groups. The author discusses the mechanisms behind the evolution of US income and wealth inequality from historical and comparative perspectives and analyzes the role of public policy and, in particular, taxation in the evolution of inequality.