Tippet, Benjamin ORCID: 0000-0003-4704-5735 and Wildauer, Rafael ORCID: 0000-0001-6395-6286 (2023) The good life at the top: analysing The Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2023. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

Each spring, The Sunday Times Rich List (STRL) is published, inviting us as a country to reflect on the question of wealth inequality. When the STRL was first published in 1989, The Queen sat at the top of the list. Today, The King has been pushed down to 263rd place, as business owners, aristocrats, celebrities, and others have accumulated vast and unimaginable fortunes. In this short report, we present six key findings from a new research project analysing the STRL. The report utilises a novel dataset that has been constructed from archives of the rich list from 1989 to 2023. This dataset provides a unique opportunity to analyse the wealth of the very richest households, who tend to not be captured by other existing data sources.

Item Type:	Working Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords:	wealth inequality; wealth tax; rich list
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of Accounting & Finance Faculty of Business > Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (IPEGFA) Faculty of Business > Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (IPEGFA) > Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC)
Last Modified:	22 May 2023 16:14
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42714

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