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A new study on the World Distribution of household wealth has been published by the UN University.
The research finds that assets $2,200 per adult placed a household in the top half of the world wealth distribution in the year 2000. To be among the richest 10% of adults in the world required $61,000 in assets, […]

The former editor of the Financial Times, Andrew Gowers, releases a report on the structure of the UK’s intellectual property framework today. One issue under discussion is the extension of copyright terms to 95 years from 50. Lawrence Lessig outlines why this extension is irrelevant from an economic perspective.
The debate will replay the arguments over […]