Figures
1.1 Income inequality in the United States from 1910 to 2010
1.2 Income share of top 1% in the United States from 1910 to 2010
1.3 Income inequality in Anglo-Saxon countries
1.4 Income inequality in continental Europe and Japan
1.5 Wealth inequality in Europe versus the United States
1.6 CEO pay ratio trend in the United States
1.7 Relative preference for three different wealth distributions
1.8 Actual, estimated, and ideal U.S. wealth distributions
1.9 Actual, estimated, and ideal U.S. wealth distributions by income level, political affiliation, and gender
3.1 Spreading of the pay distribution under competition in an ideal free-market environment
3.2 Net utility: inverted-U curve
4.1 All gas molecules are in the left chamber
4.2 Statistical equilibrium: uniform distribution of gas molecules
4.3 An extremely unlikely configuration
6.1 Income inequality in Norway, 1930–2010
6.2 Income inequality in Sweden, 1920–2010
6.3 Income inequality in Denmark, 1920–2010
6.4 Income inequality in Switzerland, 1930–2010
6.5 Income inequality in the Netherlands, 1920–2000
6.6 Income inequality in Australia, 1940–2010
6.7 Income inequality in France, 1920–2000s
6.8 Income inequality in Germany, 1950–2010
6.9 Income inequality in Japan, 1940–2010
6.10 Income inequality in Canada, 1940–2000
6.11 Income inequality in the United Kingdom, 1930–2010
6.12 Income inequality in the United States, 1930–2010s
6.13a Gini coefficients (OECD)
6.13b Gini coefficients (LIS)
6.14 Agent-based simulation results
6.15 Power law fits truncated lognormal