An obvious place to begin, of course, would be the skyrocketing price of books, but that particular metric did not made the cut for some reason. US and Canadian economists investigate whether the increase of per-capita income in the US during the 1990s has increased the level of well-being in the country. They assess the established measures of wel

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are highlighted in terms of wealth holdings, among the low-income population, along with changes in wealth polarization, racial differences in wealth holdings, and the dynamics of portfolio choices. The consensus between the authors is that wealth inequality has generally risen among these OECD countries...