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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.I went down a similar road with curiosity and little prior knowledge.I'll say some of the best resources I found were macroeconomic textbooks on specific economic subjects.
For example I really enjoyed this one for understanding how the fed and the central banking system works broadly.
https://www.amazon.com/Central-Banking-Sustaining-Financial-...
At a higher level though one of the few non-textbooks I would reccomend is Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty. It's an introduction and history of many topics and an enjoyable read.
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-P...
I recommend „Capital in the 21st Century“ by Thomas Pikkety, an economist who has deeply studied wealth and income equality using historical data spanning three centuries. This book has all the evidence you need.https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0674979850
Spoiler alert: income from wealth is on its way of becoming close to being as concentrated as it was in the 19th century (especially in the US), and the share of income from work in total national income is decreasing almost anywhere. So yes, increasingly you can only accrue significant wealth by already having significant wealth.