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title: Wealth Concentration Leads to Wealth Extraction
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4806290/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4806290
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4806290
featured: 2024-05-01
citations: 0
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Wealth Concentration Leads to Wealth Extraction

The article stresses the need for fair wealth distribution for the effective operation of a free-market economy, arguing that extreme inequality and a flawed banking system obstruct entrepreneurship and innovation, worsening wealth concentration and inequality.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4806290
- Identifier: SSRN 4806290
- Released: 2024-04-18
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 47 (2024-05-01): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-01/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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