PERSONAL SECTOR WEALTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1920–56 |
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Authors: | Solomos Solomou Martin Weale |
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Affiliation: | Peterhouse, Cambridge;National Institute of Economic and Social Research |
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Abstract: | In the United Kingdom there is a wide range of sources which make it possible to construct a series for components of personal wealth for the period 1920–56. The data are consistent with contemporary estimates produced for specific years in the 1920s and 1930s. They indicate that a stock-market boom and the effects of deflation and low interest rates on the nominal value of the national debt took the wealth/income ratio in the mid-1930s to a level not seen again until the housing boom of the 1980s. |
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