Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Gilded Age, Redux

From Emmanuel Saez:


Welcome to the roaring 10s!

4 comments:

fthompso said...

Saez is undoubtedly right, but the story is also a lot more complicated than this makes out. See http://taxfoundation.org/blog/opposite-headlines-income-inequality-has-gone-down-over-last-two-decades

fthompso said...

Saez is right, but it's still complicated.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/opposite-headlines-income-inequality-has-gone-down-over-last-two-decades

fthompso said...

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-poverty-rate-income-and-consumption.html

fthompso said...

http://gini-research.org/system/uploads/443/original/US.pdf?1370077377