22 janvier 2018
Ecrit par WID.world

Nouvelle étude (en anglais) “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia” (WID.world Working Paper 2018/2)

The new paper, “From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia”, by Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, Li Yang and Gabriel Zucman, compares recent findings on the transition from communism to capitalism in China and Russia. The authors discuss the impact of the different privatization strategies followed in the two countries on the accumulation of public and private wealth, as well as  their impact on income inequality.