As the summer vacation season - in this most extraordinary of years - gets under way and some of the more conventional newsflow slackens, this news service is republishing features that the editorial team thinks made an impression so far in 2020. 

A regular writer in these pages is Dr Rainer Zitelmann, author of several books about attitudes on wealth, capitalism and business success. He is no stranger to taking on certain assumptions about inequality, inheritance and opinions about great wealth. At a time when the US presidential elections are a few months away, and taxation is likely to feature on the agenda, this article repays reading.