The rise of Sweden's super rich

Inequality in Sweden reaches highest level in decades

New data from the Swedish government's statistics agency—Statistics Sweden—shows that income inequality in the country is now higher than at any ...

Sweden's much more 'free market' than you think - Fraser Institute

Sweden has lower corporate taxes than other OECD countries, and no taxes on property, wealth, gifts and inheritance. On the other hand, the ...

Inequality and Tax Rates: A Global Comparison

Sweden, often cited as the most progressive tax regime in the OECD, maintains a top statutory income tax rate of 57.1 percent. The rate kicks in ...

The rise and fall of inheritance taxation in advanced democracies

In Sweden still, Elinder et al. (2018) estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality, using the official wealth register of ...

Global Wealth Report 2024 - UBS

The US is one of very few markets in our sample where wealth growth has accelerated since 2010 compared with the decade before. Average wealth growth has ...

Mercenaries and War: Understanding Private Armies Today

It is an ancient form of armed conflict that modern militaries have forgotten how to fight. Should this trend develop, the super-rich could ...

The Wealthiest 1% Generate Half Of The World's Global Aviation ...

The identification of such a small elite, whom he dubbed “super-emitters”, being behind half of aviation emissions was the most eye-opening ...

The Superrich Are Using Private Jets “Like Taxis” for Short, Wasteful ...

Stefan Gössling, the professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden who led the research, said: “The wealthy are a very small share of the ...

Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality

While managers are on the rise among the super-rich, they still only make up ... “Wealth Concentration over the. Path of Developement: Sweden, ...

ultra-high-net-worth for a coordinated taxation standard for individuals

Most of the rise of billionaires' wealth relative to world GDP owes ... Studying various wealth tax reforms in Sweden and Norway, Jakobsen et al.

Sweden's Wealth Rating | 2024 | Economic Data

Sweden's Income & Asset Wealth ... The table below is an imperfect attempt at assessing Sweden's Income per capita level (proxied as World Economics GDP per ...

Why We Should Abolish the Super Rich - Inequality.org

The second: Even if we could raise taxes on the rich, we shouldn't ... Top tax rates in nations like the UK, Sweden, and Denmark surpassed 90 ...

The rise of Sweden's super rich - daily news

Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich.

Mind the Gap! The unfair distribution of wealth in Europe | Euronews

Sweden maintained its top position, with the richest 5% owning 60.3% of the wealth, while Belgium had the lowest wealth inequality, with the top ...

Swedish income inequality in 1613

... richest individual living in Sweden in 1613, reflected by his 2115 riksdaler tax payment. The income of the super-rich (i.e. the richest 0.01 per cent of ...

New book reveals the rise of Sweden's new billionaires

The number of billionaires in Sweden has doubled since 2008, from 98 to 191. But who are these super rich Swedes and how have they made ...

Why is Sweden so rich? The Local answers Google's questions

Sweden is the world's 16th wealthiest country. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is just below Germany's in the OECD's rankings.

The house-price supercycle is just getting going - The Economist

In Germany, New Zealand and Sweden real house prices have tumbled by more than 20% since pandemic peaks. Yet in other places, house prices only ...

Financialized accumulation, neoliberal hegemony, and the ...

The number of Sweden's SEK billionaires has increased from 83 in 2001 to 187 in 2017 possessing a combined wealth amounting to 47% of GDP in 2017 (Veckans ...

Rethinking capital and wealth taxation - Thomas Piketty

For the ultra-rich, this corresponds ap- proximately to taxing wealth gains ∆kti. Such proposals have gained traction in the US tax policy debate in recent.