Over at the Harvard Business Law Review, Sanjai Bhagat has posted Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and the Rule of Law (here). Here’s what caught my eye:

Besides the size of the national pie, which is measured by GDP, senior policy makers and the media across the globe are increasingly concerned about how this pie is sliced, that is, about income inequality. We find that countries with greater adherence to Rule of Law are characterized by less income inequality. Additionally, we find that countries with greater GDP per capita are characterized by less income inequality; however, once we control for Rule of Law in the country, we do not observe this negative correlation between GDP per capita and income inequality. This further highlights that adherence to the Rule of Law relates to reducing income inequality.