Inequality in Italy and Europe, some comparisons and some conclusions.

Abstract

It is only recently that inequality regained its prominent role in the economic and social debate: have there been some signals and evidences in the underlying social and economic process that we missed to detect and to adjust to? Is the functional distribution of income facing a revival or the personal income distribution remains a central topic of our days? Analyzing data about Italy and Europe we will try to analyse the evolution of inequality in the last decades and of the underlying socio-economic realities.