A new paper challenges Thomas Piketty’s portrayal of an income distribution dominated at the top by passive rentiers who do nothing to earn their money, arguing that income inequality in America today is driven by the working rich.ProMarket — The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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