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“...The Mirrlees Review of taxation in the United Kingdom is a landmark in the analysis of U.K. fiscal policy, and of wide interest to public finance economists...”

“...This paper examines the role of secondary data-sets in empirical economic research, taking the field of income distribution as a case study. We illustrate...”

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“...Personal wealth has grown since the 1970s twice as fast in real terms as national income. Has this rise in the wealth-income ratio led to a corresponding...”

“...This article assesses the importance of Dalton's 1920 paper in the Economic Journal for subsequent developments in income distribution analysis...”

“...This volume brings together an exciting range of new studies of top incomes in a wide range of countries from around the world. The studies use data from...”

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