| Income Inequality in the United States |
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| Are the Rich Getting Poorer? |
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Friday, March 15, 2002
9:15 AM
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Friday, March 15, 2002
11:00 AM
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Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI |
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| New data reveals that top incomes were lower--in relative dollars--at the end of the twentieth century than at the beginning. A study conducted by Emmanuel Saez, a professor of public economics at Harvard University, has found that great shocks to these top incomes during the Great Depression and World War II have had a permanent effect. At this discussion Saez will suggest that steeply progressive income taxation may explain this trend. William Gale and Marvin H. Kosters will respond. |
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| 9:00 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15 |
Introduction: |
Eric M. Engen, AEI |
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Speaker: |
Emmanuel Saez, Harvard University |
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Discussants: |
William Gale, Brookings Institution |
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Marvin H. Kosters, AEI |
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Moderator: |
James K. Glassman, AEI |
| 11:00 |
Adjournment | |
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E-mail: JBrowning@aei.org
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