Ponder This Chart: The share of US households making $100K or more (in 2016 dollars) has increased more than 3X over last 50 years, from 8.1% in 1967 to 27.7% last year. Middle class is disappearing, but into higher income groups. pic.twitter.com/kaht0mSwCy
— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) November 15, 2017
The middle class is just withering away
16 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Generational Injustice
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in economic history Tags: The Great Enrichment
Christopher Columbus: What Really Happened
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in economic history Tags: Age of Discovery, economics of colonialism
James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, The Great Enrichment
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, economics of colonialism
Interesting but flawed. The age of empires was prior to the industrial revolution.
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in economic history, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: East Germany
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Nice summary of the Piketty debate
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in economic history, health economics
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in economic history, Marxist economics Tags: fall of communism


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