April 27th, 2022

Atkinson, Piketty, & Saez (2011). Top Incomes in the Long Run of History. Journal of Economic Literature.

For the discussion on the Pareto Distribution see pages 13-15. For the graphs see Figures 12 through 15. The rest of the paper, is of course, interesting. But, note that this is a hot topic, with a lot of further research in the past decade on it.

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