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The 28 pages that link to Wealth inequality, each with the reason it gives.

• Income inequalityCompared with: Wealth is a stock of assets, unlike income, which is measured over a period.

• Social classRelated: Unequal wealth gives class groups different security, influence, and access to opportunity.

• Capital accumulationRelated: Unequal ownership of accumulated assets can widen differences in wealth.

• OligarchyRelated: Large wealth gaps can supply the resources that entrench a narrow ruling group.

• Capital gains taxRelated: Capital gains rules can affect the accumulation and transfer of wealth.

• Social inequalityBroader topic: Accumulated assets can yield security and influence beyond differences in current income.

• PropertyRelated: Unequal ownership concentrates control over resources and opportunities.

• Capital flightRelated: Access to offshore transfers can let wealthy households protect assets unavailable to most people.

• Panama PapersRelated: The revelations sharpened debate about whether wealthy people can shield assets from public obligations.

• Common ownershipRelated: Broadening ownership of productive assets is one approach to reducing concentrated wealth.

• Equality of outcomeRelated: Wealth differences persist across generations and shape later results.

• Institutional discriminationRelated: Discriminatory access to housing, credit, and employment can accumulate across generations.

• Gini coefficientRelated: Wealth Ginis often exceed income Ginis because wealth is more concentrated.

• GeorgismRelated: Capturing land rents for public use is intended to limit private gains from socially created scarcity.

• Book of ProverbsRelated: Proverbs praises prudence and generosity while also recognizing the social power of wealth.

• WealthBroader topic: It describes differences in the accumulated holdings that wealth measures.

• Estate taxRelated: Estate taxation is debated as a way to limit the persistence of concentrated wealth across generations.

• The Single TaxRelated: Collecting land rent publicly could reduce private concentration of location-based wealth.

• Inheritance taxRelated: Taxing inherited wealth can influence how strongly family fortunes persist across generations.

• J. Paul GettyNarrower topic: Getty’s immense fortune made him a lasting emblem of concentrated private wealth.

• Jeff BezosRelated: Bezos’s fortune made him a prominent figure in debates about extreme wealth and taxation.

• Franco ModiglianiRelated: Modigliani’s research examined how life-cycle saving contributes to patterns of wealth across households.

• Trickle-down economicsRelated: Policies that raise asset values can widen disparities even when total output grows.

• Abu Dharr al-GhifariRelated: Abu Dharr’s remembered warnings make his legacy relevant to debates about unequal ownership.

• Larry EllisonRelated: Ellison’s immense fortune places his business success within debates about concentrated wealth.

• Wealth taxRelated: Reducing concentrated wealth is a common stated goal of wealth taxation.

• Nouveau richeRelated: The label draws attention to social status disputes while leaving broader inequalities in wealth intact.

• Thomas PikettyNarrower topic: Piketty’s historical research focuses especially on how wealth becomes concentrated.