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Notes
Introduction
1. See Porter 2017, as well as Nitti 2017.
2. See Alvaredo et al. 2017, Piketty 2014, and Wolff 2002. Kelly (forthcoming) argues that economic inequality and political inequality tend to mutually reinforce and increase each other.
3. Forbes 2017b, 86– 90.
4. Forbes 2016a (global), 128– 37; 2016b (US), 140– 52. Bloomberg’s calculations, which are updated at the end of each trading day, are similar ( Bloomberg 2017). For IMF data on countries’ GDP, see http://statisticstimes.com/economy
/countries- by- projected- gdp.php.
5. See chap. 2 below.
6. Vogel 2015.
7. Balcerzak 2017.
8. Bonica et al. 2013.
9. The evidence on these points is strongest concerning multimillionaires: Page, Bartels, and Seawright 2013. On billionaires, see chaps. 2 and 5 below.
10. Bartels 2016; Gilens 2012; Gilens and Page 2014; Page and Gilens 2017, chap. 4.
11. As of 2016 (the most recent year covered by the Survey of Consumer Finances at the time of writing), each of the least wealthy members of the top one percent of US wealth holders held around $10 million in net worth, less than one one- hundredth of the fortune of the least wealthy billionaires (DQYDJ 2017; see also Hines 2014; Coy 2014).
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