Economic Inequality in Australia: a reassessment
| dc.contributor.author | Fenna, Alan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tapper, Alan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T10:35:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T10:35:01Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015-10-14T02:46:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fenna, A. and Tapper, A. 2015. Economic Inequality in Australia: a reassessment. Australian Journal of Political Science. 50 (3): pp. 393-411. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3914 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10361146.2015.1066309 | |
| dc.description.abstract |
This article reviews and analyses the evidence on the distribution of income and wealth in Australia since the 1960s. A number of scholars – most prominently among them Thomas Piketty – suggest that inequality has been increasing across the advanced capitalist world. Kuznets’ benign picture of an ‘inverted u-curve’ depicting declining inequality in modern industrial society is replaced with an altogether different and potentially quite alarming one. Does this hold for Australia? Surveying 25 income trend and 17 wealth distribution studies, we draw on the best available evidence and find that overall there has been far less of a rising inequality trend than is often assumed or argued. | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | |
| dc.subject | Inequality | |
| dc.subject | Wealth | |
| dc.subject | Income Distribution | |
| dc.title | Economic Inequality in Australia: a reassessment | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dcterms.source.volume | 50 | |
| dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
| dcterms.source.startPage | 393 | |
| dcterms.source.endPage | 411 | |
| dcterms.source.issn | 1036-1146 | |
| dcterms.source.title | Australian Journal of Political Science | |
| curtin.department | John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP) | |
| curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available | |
| curtin.contributor.orcid | Fenna, Alan [0000-0002-3692-7954] |