Piketty in One Graph

This graphic summarizes the key inequality and policy trends for the U.S. traced in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Scrolling through the policy metrics suggests some of the causal forces at work: a precipitous decline in the top inheritance and income tax rates lifting the ceiling on high incomes; and the collapse of labor standards and bargaining power lowering the floor for everyone else.

Source: Piketty in One Graph | Graphic Economics.

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