Inequality
Income inequality, wealth concentration, and the dynamics of capital — grounded in Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century and 250 years of data.
About This Section
This page uses Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) as its primary academic framework, supplemented by Kuznets (1955), Milanovic (2016), Saez & Zucman (2019), Atkinson (2015), Deaton (2013), and Sen (1999). It covers Piketty's central thesis (r > g), the Kuznets curve and its critique, income and wealth inequality across countries and centuries, historical dynamics from the Gilded Age to the present, a live global Gini map, and the tax and policy levers that shape distributional outcomes.
Historical data based on Piketty (2014), World Inequality Database, and Piketty & Saez (2003). Global Gini data fetched live from the World Bank API. All figures are approximate and intended for educational purposes.