This volume brings together an exciting range of new studies of top incomes in a wide range of countries from around the world. The studies use data from income tax records to cast light on the dramatic changes that have taken place at the top of the income distribution. The results cover 22 countries and have a long time span, going back to 1875.

• 1: A. Banerjee and T. Piketty: Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000


• 2: T. Piketty and N. Qian: Income inequality and progressive income taxation in China and India, 1986-2015


• 3: C. Moriguchi and E. Saez: The evolution of income concentration in Japan, 1886-2005: Evidence from income tax statistics


• 4: A Leigh and P. van der Eng: Top incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004


• 5: A. B. Atkinson: Top incomes in a rapidly growing economy: Singapore


• 6: F. Alvaredo: The rich in Argentina over the twentieth century 1932-2004


• 7: J. Roine and D. Waldenström: Top Incomes in Sweden over the twentieth century


• 8: M. Jäntti, M. Riihelä, R. Sullström, and M. Tuomala: Trends in top income shares in Finland


• 9: R. Aaberge and A. B. Atkinson: Top incomes in Norway


• 10: F. Alvaredo and E. Saez: Income and wealth concentration in Spain in a historical and fiscal perspective


• 11: F. Alvaredo: Top incomes and earnings in Portugal 1936-2005


• 12: F. Alvaredo and E. Pisano: Top incomes in Italy 1974-2004


• 13: A. B. Atkinson, T. Piketty and E. Saez: Top incomes in the long run of history

Sir Tony Atkinson is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College, of which he was Warden from 1994 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been President of the Royal Economic Society, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, and of the International Economic Association.