Why the west is stagnant

Posted on July 6, 2020 by odeboyz

Thomas Piketty, the French economist, calculates that more than half of total wealth in Germany today is inherited — an estimate confirmed by German economists. In the 1960s and 1970s, the share was just a little over 20 per cent.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/germany-fact-day-2.html

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