2019 Volume 11 Pages 75-87
It is widely acknowledged that problem of income inequality and redistribution policy should be appropriately implemented to reduce the inequality. After 2010’s, due to income inequality within a country, United States came to change the policies towards the closed economy although the United states had played leading role to promote the free-trade. Reflecting the real situation after the 21th century, a number of economists have analyzed the inequality and income redistribution. Especially, in the field of behavioral economics in which researchers consider psychological factors, abundant important findings have been accumulated by using leading-edge methods. This article reviewed how the long-standing inequality problem has been analyzed。Then, I mentioned the remaining issues to be addressed for researchers of behavioral economics in the future.
