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Inequality and the Super Rich
Social Sciences
In this lecture, Daniel Waldenström from Uppsala University presents the latest academic research about the evolution of top income and wealth positions around the Western world, what we know about the central determinants and how economic policy contribute to shaping these outcomes. Over the recent decades there has been a dramatic rise in top income shares in most Western countries. Several explanations have been proposed, some pointing at the role of market-driven forces such as technology and globalisation whereas others emphasise the importance of political and economic institutions of taxation or changing social norms about income differences in society.