• Background facts / James Piereson
• The broad-based rise in return to top talent / Joshua D. Rauh
• The economic determinants of top income inequality / Charles I. Jones
• Intergenerational mobility and income inequality / Jörg L. Spenkuch
• The effects of redistribution policies on growth and unemployment / Casey B. Mulligan
• Income and wealth in America / Kevin M. Murphy and Emmanuel Saez
• Conclusions and solutions / John H. Cochrane, Lee E. Ohanian, and George P. Shultz
• Remembering Gary Becker / Edward P. Lazear and George P. Shultz.

Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress.
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