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The ‘Textbook Story’ of Inequality: How does it measure up?

Posted On September 16, 2021 By Blair Fix

Originally published at sbhager.com Sandy Brian Hager I put together Figure 1 for a paper I will be presenting at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Lyon this summer. The chart captures the patterns of inequality found in the advanced capitalist countries over the past few decades. There are two […]

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Problems With Measuring Inequality

Posted On January 4, 2020September 23, 2021 By Blair Fix

Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix Economists often talk about income inequality the same way a doctor would talk about a child’s height. Just as a doctor would say “Sylvia continues to grow taller”, economists say things like “US income inequality continues to grow”. (Full disclosure, I’m sure I’ve said similar […]