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unusual facts about Distribution of wealth


Income equality

Distribution of wealth, comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society



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Cultural ecology

It derives from the work of Franz Boas and has branched out to cover a number of aspects of human society, in particular the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northest North American coast).

Henry Boswell Bennett

Courtenay promised his followers a better future with greater equality and fairer distribution of wealth, addressing their concerns about low wages, lack of work, and the New Poor Law.

Heterogeneity in economics

Krusell and Smith (JPE 1998) permit an arbitrary distribution of wealth but assume all prices and equilibrium variables are approximately functions of the mean or of a few other statistics of that distribution.

Income equality

Economic inequality, differences in the distribution of wealth and income within or between populations or individuals