The Comfortable, the Rich, and the Super-rich. What Really Happened to Top British Incomes During the First Half of the Twentieth Century?
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Income inequality; United Kingdom;JEL classification:
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- H87 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2019-01-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LTV-2019-01-28 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MAC-2019-01-28 (Macroeconomics)
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