Inequality in the long run

Science

Volumn 344, Issue 6186, 2014, Pages 838-843

  Piketty, Thomas ^a   Saez, Emmanuel ^b  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EUROPE; HUMAN; INEQUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HISTORY; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EUROPE; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901218466     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251936     Document Type: Review

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