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October 17, 2003
International Perspectives on Household Wealth
by Karen M Albright, Beth Almeida, Rania Antonopoulos, Philip Arestis, George Argyrous, David Alan Aschauer, Richard Aspinwall, Jeremy Atack, Robert J. Barbera, Malcolm Barr, James R. Barth, Santonu Basu, Fred Bateman, Stephanie A. Kelton, Allen N. Berger, Günseli Berik, Andrew Bershadker, Jörg Bibow, McKinley L. Blackburn, Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Bloom, Barry Bluestone, Gabor Bognar, Milan Boran, Claudio E. V. Borio, Axel Börsch-Supan, Biagio Bossone, Andrea Brandolini, Vernon M. Briggs, Bruce K. Britton, Leonard Broom, Andrew Brown, R. Dan Brumbaugh, Neil H. Buchanan, Carlos Budnevich, Lawrence Buron, Walter M. Cadette, David W. Campbell, Maria Cancian, Asena Caner, Luigi Cannari, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Robert E. Carpenter, Jean Cartelier, John Caskey, Ravi Chahil, Robert S. Chirinko, Ngina S. Chiteji, Andrea Cipollini, William J. Collins, Pedro Conceição, Dalton Conley, David J. Cooper, Lee Coppock, Andrew Cornford, Helmuth Cremer, Arthur R. Cresce, James R. Crotty, Giovanni D’Alessio, Conchita D’Ambrosio, Sheldon Danziger, Ghislain Deleplace, Jorge H. Del Pinal, Panicos Demetriades, Robert DeYoung, Claudio H. Dos Santos, Marie Drolet, Gerard Dumenil, Greg J. Duncan, Yuval Elmelech, Bruce Elmslie, Bert Ely, Sharon J. Erenburg, Korkut A. Ertürk, Ivan Faiella, Bruce Fallick, Bassam Fattouh, Steven M. Fazzari, Kris Feder, J. Peter Ferderer, Thomas Ferguson, Piero Ferri, Judith Fields, E. V. K. FitzGerald, Charles A. Fleischman, Maria Sagrario Floro, Giuseppe Fontana, Robert Forrant, Mathew Forstater, Richard B. Freeman, George E. French, James K. Galbraith, Mauro Gallegati, Domenico Delli Gatti, Teresa Ghilarducci, Dimitrios A. Giannias, R. Alton Gilbert, Maury Gittleman, Mark Glick, Andrew Glyn, Wynne Godley, Jonathan A. Goldstein, Peter Gottschalk, Edward Greenberg, Michael J. Handel, Lingxin Hao, Geoffrey Harcourt, Albert Gailord Hart, Richard Hauser, Robert Haveman, Benjamin Herzon, Steven Hill, Stefan Hochguertel, Richard P. F. Holt, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Rene Houtrides, David R. Howell, Michael Hudson, Thomas L. Hungerford, Robert M. Hutchens, Christopher Huxley, Dorene L. Isenberg, Alex Izurieta, William H. Janeway, Marc Jarsulic, Christopher Jencks, Derek C. Jones, Elias Karakitsos, Thomas Karier, Louis Kasekende, Philip Kasinitz, Takao Kato, George G. Kaufman, Lisa A. Keister, Lynndee Kemmet, Arthur B. Kennickell, David Kettler, Dae Young Kim, Marlene Kim, Moshe Kim, Damoni Kitabire, N. Anders Klevmarken, Kenneth J. Koford, Meir Kohn, Panos Konstas, Jan Kregel, Hyunsub Kum, David Ladipo, Anthony J. Laramie, Marc Lavoie, William H. Lazonick, Guillermo Le Fort, Oren Levin-Waldman, S. Jay Levy, Leon Levy, David A. Levy, Dominique Levy, Paul Lewis, Michael A. Lewis, Frank R. Lichtenberg, Eugene Linden, Nancy Lopez, Hsien-Hen Lu, Ambika D. Luintel, Kul B. Luintel, Y. P. Mack, Christopher Magee, Douglas Mair, Robert A. Margo, Iris Biefang-Frisanch Mariscal, Bill Martin, Matthew Martin, Martin Mayer, George W. McCarthy, Kevin McCauley, Robert N. McCauley, Deborah McCutchen, Volker Meja, Thanos Mergoupis, Laurence H. Meyer, Andrew P. Meyer, Thomas R. Michl, Raymond F. Mikesell, William Milberg, James N. Miller, Jeffrey B. Miller, Jeffrey A. Mills, Hyman P. Minsky, John Mollenkopf, Motohiro Morishima, Rene Morissette, Ann Morning, Philip Moss, Tracy Mott, Jamee K. Moudud, Kostas Mouratidis, Elizabeth J. Mueller, Edward J. Nell, Machiko Nissanke, Daniel E. Nolle, Eduardo M. Ochoa, Owen O’Donnell, Henry Ohlsson, Mary O’Sullivan, Alfonso Palacio-Vera, Thomas I. Palley, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Yung Chu Park, Eric Parrado, Andrew Paulson, Joel Perlmann, Pierre Pestieau, Ronnie J. Phillips, Marc-André Pigeon, Jeffrey Pliskin, Alex J. Pollock, Alejandro Portes, Roberto G. Quercia, Milind Rao, James B. Rebitzer, Edward V. Regan, Anette Reil-Held, Matthew Richards, Ralf Rodepeter, Yana Van der Meulen Rodgers, Willard Rodgers, Joan R. Rodgers, John L. Rodgers, Alessandro Roncaglia, Stephen Rose, J. Barkley Rosser, Robin Rowley, Rubin Rumbaut, Jochen Runde, Wiemer Salverda, Claudio Sardoni, Malcolm Sawyer, Reinhold Schnabel, Stephanie Seguino, Anwar M. Shaikh, Nina Shapiro, William Shay, Goerge Sherer, Bernard Shull, Donald G. Simonson, Timothy Smeeding, Anthony M. Solomon, Chi-Young Song, Kenneth Spong, Frances M. Spring, Frank P. Stafford, Michael A. Stegman, Howard Stein, Holger Stein, James Struthers, Richard Sylla, Leah M. Taguba, Larry W. Taylor, Lowell J. Taylor, Kenneth H. Thomas, Willem Thorbecke, Chris Tilly, Jan Toporowski, Qiyu Tu, Althea A. Turner, Gregory E. Udell, Georges Vernez, Stephen C. Vogt, Roger Waldinger, Hong Wang, Mary C. Waters, Charles J. Whalen, Gary Whalen, Karl Widerquist, John Williamson, Joachim Winter, Barbara Wolfe, Edward N. Wolff, L. Randall Wray, Nancy J. Wulwick, Ajit Zacharias, Sourushe Zandvakili, David Zen, Gennaro Zezza, Xuelin Zhang, Joseph E. Zveglich, Ebru Kongar, Marzia Fontana, Edward Chilcote, Marina Durano, Diane Elson, Caren A. Grown, Nilüfer A. Cagatay, Indira Hirway, Imraan Valodia, Susan E. Mayer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Lyn Craig, Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, Leslie S. Stratton, Kaye K.W. Lee, Jacques Silber, Branko Milanovic, James Mahmud Rice, Robert E. Goodin, Antti Parpo, Éric Tymoigne, J. Bonke, M. Deding, M. Lausten, Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith, C. Eugene Steuerle, Lois B. Shaw, Chandrika Bahadur, Jessie Handbury, Stephen A. Woodbury, James Marton, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Ana Rosa Martinez-Canete, Elena Marquez de la Cruz, Ines Perez-Soba Aguilar, Lekha S. Chakraborty, Pinaki Chakraborty, Thomas Masterson, Robert W. Parenteau, Li Gan, Guan Gong, Michael Hurd, Valeria Esquivel, Theodore Pelagidis, Giovanni Cozzi, Francisco Cos-Montiel, Fadhel Kaboub, Melissa Mahoney, Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Joana Costa, Joseph Deutsch, Yves Flückiger, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Olivier Giovannoni, Ann J. Russo, Amedeo Spadaro, Kijong Kim, Hind Jalal, Zahra Karimi, Barbara Ross, Michael Mah-Hui Lim, Daniel Kostzer, Sergio DellaPergola, Seymour Spilerman, Antonio C. Macedo e Silva, Barbara S. Okun, Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fernando Ferrari-Filho, Fatma Gül Unal, Yinon Cohen, Luisa Fernandez, Zdravka Todorova, Emel Memiş, Selçuk Eren, Julia S. Perelstein, Ewa Karwowski, Warren Mosler, Sergio Destefanis, Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Martin Shubik, Sanjaya DeSilva, Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Hugo BenÃtez-Silva, Frank Heiland, Sergi Jiménez-MartÃn, Burca Kizilirmak, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Thomas Bailey, David Weiman, Joseph Stiglitz, William Julius Wilson, Paolo Casadio, Antonio Paradiso, Tamar Khitarishvili, Alessandro Vercelli, Bruce C. Greenwald, Martin L. Leibowitz, Leon Botstein, Lakshman Achuthan, Susan Howard, Marie-Celeste Edwards, Deborah C. Treadway, Willis C. Walker, Debra Pemstein, Mark Primoff, Juliet Meyers, Kathleen Mullaly, Mary Smith, Yeva Nersisyan, Tsu-Yu Tsao, Andrew Pearlman, Paul B. Andreassen, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Amit Bhaduri, Célia Firmin, G. E. Krimpas, Mirjana Dokmanovic, Rafis Abazov, Anh Pham, Michael Smith, M. R. Saluja, Bhupesh Yadav, Taun Toay, Gary A. Dymski, Paul McCulley, Sunanda Sen, Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar, Arnelyn Abdon, Norio Usui, Andrea Terzi, Marife Bacate, Francisco Azpitarte, Dirk Bezemer, Geoffrey Gardiner, Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada, Marshall Auerback, Timothy Azarchs, Martin Gaynor, Scott Fullwiler, Pedro Leao, David Fields, MatÃas Vernengo, Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland, Jesus Hernandez, Lisa Mohanty, Nazim Kadri Ekinci, Julio López-Gallardo, Luis Reyes-Ortiz, Christine Sinapi, Nathan Perry, Andrew Sharpe, Alexander Murray, Benjamin Evans, Elspeth Hazell, Michael Stephens, Andrew Sheng, S. A. Kaya Bahçe, Eva Cárceles-Poveda, Gregor Semieniuk, Till van Treeck, Achim Truger, Jesús Muñoz, Fabrizio Patriarca, Micah Hauptman, James Andrew Felkerson, Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar, Maria Nikolaidi, Robert Dubois, Philip Pilkington, Thorvald Grung Moe, Nicholas Apergis, Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Antoine Godin, Rainer Kattel, Ringa Raudla, Egmont Kakarot-Handtke, Alessandro Caiani, Stefano Lucarelli, Eckhard Hein, Vincent Duwicquet, W. Ray Towle, Jonathan Hubschman, Michalis Nikiforos, Alberto Botta, Gerald Holtham, Ana Rosa González, Óscar Dejuán, Eugenio Caverzasi, Darren O’Sullivan, Jannet Farida Jacob, Daniel Titelman, Pablo Carvallo, Thomas M. Humphrey, Barry Z. Cynamon, Michael A. Valenti, Nicola Matthews, Fernando Rios-Avila, Nathaniel Cline, Gerardo Fujii-Gambero, Rosario Cervantes-MartÃnez, Walker F. Todd, İpek Ilkkaracan, Laura Carvalho, Christian Schoder, William Greider, Serkan Değirmenci, Giovanni Bernardo, Emanuele Campiglio, Aurélie Charles, Xinhua Liu, Iván H. Ayala, Şirin Saraçoğlu, Ebru Voyvoda, Leonardo Burlamaqui, Martin Binder, Leonhard K. Lades, Eloy Fisher, Javier López Bernardo, Lei Lu, Dam Linh Nguyen, Alex Xu, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Sofia Adam, Alex Coad, Hrishikesh Vinod, Honey Karun, Zico DasGupta, Christine Pizzuti, Mario Tonveronachi, Daniel Detzer, Tanweer Akram, Anupam Das, Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras, Srinivas Yanamandra, Riccardo Bellofiore, Giovanna Vertova, Mariana Mazzucato, Felipe Rezende, Markus P.A. Schneider, Daniele Tavani, Caetano C.R. Penna, Alla Semenova, Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Matthew Berg, Tai Young-Taft, Nancy Folbre, C. J. Polychroniou, Riccardo Realfonzo, Angelantonio Viscione, Tolga Kaya, Josh Ryan-Collins, Emilios Avgouleas, Patrizio Lainà, Marco Missaglia, Miguel Carrión Álvarez, Dirk Ehnts, Lorenzo Esposito, Stephen Kinsella, Patrick Nevada, Bhavya Aggarwal, Jordan Brennan, Huiqing Li, Damiano B. Silipo, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci, Apostolos Fasianos, Diego Guevara, Abhishek Anand, Flavia Dantas, Elizabeth Dunn, Horst Hanusch, Swati Khurana, Özlem Albayrak, Mark Price, William J. Baumol, Oscar Valdes Viera, Peter Bofinger, Ernani Teixeira Torres Filho, Norberto Montani Martins, Caroline Yukari Miaguti, Cameron Haas, Samiksha Agarwal, Catherine Ruetschlin, Marshall Steinbaum, Martha Tepepa, J. W. Mason, Frank Veneroso, Nicole Favreau-Negront, Luis Méndez Lobos, W. Lee Hoskins, Liudmila Malyshava, Ignacio Ramirez Cisneros, Iván D. Velasquez, Francesco Zezza, Marian Ingrams, Yadawendra Singh, Fabiola Saavedra Caballero, Zengping He, Genliang Jia, Paolo Savona, Plamen Nikolov, Paolo Pasimeni, Harold M. Hastings, Thomas Wang, Sameh Hallaq, Srinivas Raghavendra, Sinead Ashe, Mrinal Chadha, Felix Asante, Petri T. Piiroinen, Nata Duvvury, William Mitchell, Martin Watts, Luiza Nassif Pires, Mikael Randrup Byrialsen, Hamid Raza, Liu Qiang, Han Jiqin, Donna Faye Bajaro, John McCombie, George Zestos, Rachel N. Cooke, Laura de Lima Xavier, Syed Al-Helal Uddin, Ruth Badru, Bendreff Desilus, Michelle Holder, Janelle Jones, Ruzel Shrestha, Susan Himmelweit, Jerome De Henau, Alex Williams, Eduardo Rawet, Erica Aloè, Ernani T. Torres Filho, Chih-Jui Tsen, Emilio Carnevali, Matteo Deleidi, Sebastian Valdecantos, Edward Lane, Lorenzo Nalin, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Daniel Haim, Abena D. Oduro, Latif Dramani, Flora Myamba, Sadou Doumbo, Pablo Gabriel Bortz, Chalachew Getahun Desta, Mark Pasquali, Luísa Cardoso, Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, Amandeep Kaur, Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Divy Rangan, Sam Levey, Marcio Santetti, Rudiger von Arnim, Emily Ungvary, Aashish Mehta, Vlassis Missos, George Soklis, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg, Fred Block, Gabriel Porcile, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Paul Carrillo-Maldonado, Harikrishnan S, James I. Sturgeon, Al-Habbyel Yusoph, Ayman Khalifah, Khawaja Mamun, Yan Liang, Alexandra Papaisidorou, Emmanouil Karakostas, Harrison Whittleton, Alejandro Fernandez-Ribas, Michael Haines, Patricia Couto, Clara Brenck, Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Danilo Spinola, Aashima Sinha, Jitesh Yadav, Ajay Narayan Jha, Balamuraly B, Nitin Nair, Riccardo Zolea, Izaskun Zuazu, Simon Grothe, Nischal Dhungel, William Waller, Belle Cheves, Edgar Desher Empeño, Brendan Miranda, Leonardo Rojas Rodriguez, Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, José Eduardo Alatorre, Yousuf Daas, Jussi Ora, Jan David Weber, Manuel L. Albis, Sanjana Das, Pedro Romero Marques, Tainari Taioka, José Bergamin, Paul Sheard, Eric Breon, Daniel Akst, Greg Hannsgen, Lindsey Carter, Shahida Pervin, B. Oak McCoy, Mahima Yadav, Emmanuel Thomas, Christos Pierros, Tarron Khemraj, Arturo Huerta G., Eric Lin, Laura Lisset Montiel-Orozco, Caio Vilella, Eduardo F. Bastian, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Karina Lima, Chirag Lala, Raúl A. Carrillo, Robert Skidelsky, Julia Juarez, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Rebeca Grynspan, Tyler Emerson, John F. Henry, Laura Zutel Agnoletti, Rogerio Studart, Agustín Mario, William Van Lear, and Daniel HutchinsonThe main focus of this conference was on the distribution of household wealth and savings in the United States and other advanced industrialized countries. Most of the papers highlighted recent trends in wealth inequality in this set of countries during the 1990s. Comparative work on a few less-developed countries was also be presented. Other topics included the roles of entrepreneurship in wealth accumulation and asset poverty in the US
The conference was held October 17–18, 2003, at the Levy Institute’s research and conference center at Blithewood on the campus of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.