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Full Issue Download The Journal of The Journal of Economic Perspectives Economic Perspectives The Journal of Fall 2020, Volume 34, Number 4 Economic Perspectives Symposia How Much Income and Wealth Inequality? Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, “The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts” Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick, “Business Incomes at the Top” Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux, “Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies” Economics and Epidemiology Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, and Sara Fisher Ellison, “An Economist’s Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease” A journal of the Eleanor J. Murray, “Epidemiology’s Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic- American Economic Association Related Economics” Articles 34, Number 4 Fall 2020 Volume Frank J. Fabozzi, Robert J. Shiller, and Radu S. 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