Thoughts On Economics

David Graeber's review of Robert Skidelsky's Money and Government: The past and Future of Government . A TED talk, by Nick Hanaue...

I recently took another look at data, available from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), on income inequal...

Current Dollars For Millionaires Of Various Eras How much would you need to have today to live like a millionaire in 1920? Over 10 million...

Table 3: The Perceived Importance of Problems Facing U.S.A. Problem % Wealthy Saying "Very Important" Budget deficits 87 Unempl...

Table 1: Politicians in State Legislatures Ignorant of Strength of Constituent Support for Universal Health Care Table 2: Politicians...

Figure 1: 2012 Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet The tax system in the United States favors income from property, while...

Figure 1: Bottom Decile Irrelevant To Policy Figure 2: Top Decile Much More Influential on Policy Than Median These striking figures are...

I think I would rather have seen this distribution with income distribution, not wealth. Maybe if the distribution was not so extreme, som...

Figure 1: A Figure Illustrating Data From A Table In Palley (2012) I have been reading Thomas Palley's new book, From Financial Crisis ...

Why so much inequality in the United States? I have been reading Hacker and Pierson (2010). (I haven't yet read the commentaries , avail...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has made some data available to everybody. So I thought I would replicate ...

The Australian Fair Pay Commission's Minimum Wage Research Forum met in Melbourne on 30 and 31 October 2008. Stephen Machin summarized r...

I have been reading Philip A. Klein's Economics Confronts the Economy (Edward Elgar, 2006). He presents data in two tables that I thoug...

I have a series of posts on the distribution of income, the distribution of wealth, income mobility, and related matters. I don't know ...

The following figure is from Jeffrey M. Stonecash's "The Income Gap" ( Political Science and Politics , July 2006): Voting Dif...

From Dani Rodrik , I learn that Frank Levy and Peter Temin have out a new working paper , “Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century Ameri...

I don't know Alan Reynolds . Apparently he writes for the funny pages of the Wall Street Journal . Thus, I assume, he must be a serial p...

I recently posted about income (im)mobility in the United States. One interested in that subject is probably also interested in the deterio...