Sociology & Anthropology · Social Stratification & Inequality
A topic within Social Stratification & Inequality, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
2 works
Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman
Compiles a single global dataset of income and wealth shares and argues that within-country inequality has risen almost everywhere since 1980 even as between-country inequality has fallen, leaving the world overall about as unequal as at the height of Western imperialism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Thomas Piketty
Summarises the book's central claim that when the rate of return on capital exceeds the growth rate of the economy, wealth concentrates faster than output grows, and answers critics on measurement and historical scope.
link checked 17 Sept 2026