Some Readings on Income and Wealth Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

I have been trying to develop a deeper understanding on the topic of income and wealth inequality and wanted to bookmark for myself some pertinent research and posts.

Josh Barro [Business Insider]

• 95% Of Income Gains Since 2009 Went To The Top 1% — Here's What That Really Means
• David Brooks is Wrong About Inequality
• Sorry, Libertarians — Inequality Does Matter

Andrew Berg, Jonathan Ostry [IMF]

• Equality and Efficiency
• [with Tsangarides] Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
• Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Matthew O'Brien [The Atlantic]

• Why The 1% Don't Feel Rich

Miles Corak [University of Ottawa]

• Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility; PDF
• How to Slide Down the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’: Inequality, Life Chances, and Public Policy in the United States

Kathleen Geier [Inequality Matters]

• Ten facts you should know about global economic inequality

Colin Gordon [Dissent]

• The Computer Did It? Technology and Inequality
• Who Pays? Taxes and American Inequality

David Howell [The New School]

• The Great Laissez-Faire Experiment: American Inequality and Growth from an International Perspective

Paul Krugman [Princeton University, New York Times]

• But The Top 0.1% Isn't Diverse
• Graduates Versus Oligarchs
• Growth Versus Distribution: Hunger Games
• Inequality and Recovery [p.s. somewhat opposite to earlier argument here]
• Liberty, Equality, Efficiency

Annie Lowrey [New York Times]

• The Perpetual Bubble Economy

Atif Mian [Princeton University], Amir Sufi [University of Chicago]

• Why the Income Distribution Matters for Macroeconomics
• Who Spends Extra Cash?
• Family Structure and Inequality

Eduardo Porter [New York Times]:

• A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth

Thomas Piketty [Paris School of Economics], Emmanuel Saez [University of California, Berkeley]

• [Saez] Income Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications
• [Piketty] Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• [Saez, with Gabriel Zucman] The Distribution of US Wealth, Capital Income and Returns since 1913
• [Piketty & Saez, with Alvaredo and Atkinson] The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
• [Saez, with Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Turner; presentation slides] Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
• [Saez, with Chetty, Hendren, Kline] Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.

Sam Pizzigati [Inequality.org]

• A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality

Robert J. Shiller [Yale University]

• Better Insurance Against Inequality

Joseph Stiglitz [Columbia University]

• Inequality is Holding Back the Recovery
• Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It

Scott Winship, Donald Schneider [Manhattan Institute]

• The Collapse of the Great Gatsby Curve

Gabriel Zucman

• The Missing Wealth of Nations: Are Europe and the U.S. Net Debtors or Net Creditors?

Some inequality-focused groups/blogs:

• The Equality of Opportunity Project
• Inequality.org
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• Inequality Matters

I'll continue to add more articles and links over time.