*Notes on inequality and growth

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As a January International Monetary Fund paper that was officially released on Thursday points out: “In the United States, the share of market income captured by the richest 10 percent surged from around 30 percent in 1980 to 48 percent by 2012, while the share of the richest 1 percent increased from 8 percent to 19 percent. Even more striking is the fourfold increase in the income share of the richest 0.1 percent, from 2.6 percent to 10.4 percent.”

We Can’t Grow the Gap Away - NYTimes.com