Consumption and Wealth

E$Planner
Financial planning software, with economic rationale from research by Laurence Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University
http://www.esplanner.com/

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and families, which has been ongoing since 1968.
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/

SSRN listings for JEL E21: Consumption; Saving
The repository of academic papers about consumption and saving at the Social Science Research Network, filtered by Journal of Economic Literature classification code
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=E21

Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)
The Federal Reserve's household-level repeated cross-section survey
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html

Wealth is a Zero-Sum Game
The book "In Defense of Democratic Capitalism" exposits the view in this page's title.
http://www.kellysite.net/Zerosum.html