Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
The rise of the Canadian working super-rich – composition of top 0.1% incomes since 1946
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in applied welfare economics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Canada, superstars, superstore wages, top 0.1%, top incomes
Did the rich get richer under Rogernomics? New Zealand top income shares since 1921
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in applied welfare economics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: Leftover Left, superstar wages, superstars, top incomes
Apart from a bump in the late 80s, the top income earners in New Zealand really are not doing much better than they were in the 1950s or 1920s. The rich are not getting richer in New Zealand. They are just holding their own.
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
Current US, British and French public and private expenditures on health per capita, PPP since 1960
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in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Health spending
https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/678444166016335872/photo/1
Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015.
The erosion of Jim Crow laws by the market process in the southern states of America in the 1940s and 1950s
09 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in discrimination, economic history, politics - USA
The heat maps showing the density of the listings, first in 1947 and then in 1956 in the Green Book.
Source: The forgotten way African Americans stayed safe in a racist America – The Washington Post.
According to the Washington Post article today:
in 1936, a postal worker named Victor Green began publishing a guide to help African American travellers find friendly restaurants, auto shops and accommodations in far-off places. Green dubbed the guide after himself – the “Green Book” – and published it for decades. Green says he was inspired by the Jewish press, which had long published information on restricted places…
The Green Book included listings for hotels, restaurants, gas stations, bars and beauty salons across the U.S., as well as travel articles, paid advertisements, and stories about local attractions.
The rise of car ownership among the black middle class made it more and more costly for businesses to turn away their trade despite threats of local lawlessness sanctioned by the police and local and state governments.
The rise of the Canadian working rich – composition of top 1% incomes since 1946
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in applied welfare economics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Canada, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%, working rich
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
The rise of the working rich in Australia – top income compositions since 1954
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in economic history, human capital, labour economics, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality Tags: Australia, superstar wages, superstars, top incomes, working rich
Over the course of the post-war period top incomes in Australia turned into top wage earners. It is unfortunate that information is not available on the extent to which business incomes make up the balance of top incomes as distinct from dividend incomes.
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
The New Zealand top 1% is still bone lazy – top 1% income shares USA, New Zealand and Australia since 1913
08 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in applied price theory, economic history, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: Australia, Leftover Left, top 1%
What slackers. Despite 30 years of neoliberalism oppressing the unions and working class, the top 1% in New Zealand (and Australia) are unable to do any better in terms of their share of national income than in the good old days of pre-1984 New Zealand looked upon with such fondness by the the Leftover Left.
Source: The World Wealth and Income Database.
NZ real household incomes up 55% since 1994 but no dancing in the street by the Leftover Left
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in economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, Leftover Left, living standards, Maori economic development, Twitter left
https://twitter.com/sbancel/status/654162844884205568
Pakeha and Pasifika real household incomes increased by 55% since the low point of 1994. Maori household incomes increased by 65% since 1994.
Source: Bryan Perry, Household Incomes in New Zealand: trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2014 – Ministry of Social Development, Wellington (August 2015), Table D.6.
US, British and French public and private health spending per capita, PPP since 1995
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in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, British economy, France, Health spending
https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/678444166016335872
Source: World Bank Health expenditure per capita, PPP (constant 2011 international$) | Data | Table.
How medical science research papers went from sober to exuberant
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in economic history Tags: sociology of science
Short History of Colonialism Since 1492 In One GIF
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in economic history Tags: age of empires, maps
@EricCrampton @conradhackett the size of the New Zealand government since 1900
04 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand, public economics
Oddly enough, the lost decades of New Zealand growth coincide with the rapid growth in the size of government between 1974 and 1992. The return of growth to New Zealand from 1992 after 17 years of stagnation and next to no real GDP growth coincided with the decline in the size of government.
Source: David Rea 2009.
Source: David Rea 2009.
@EricCrampton @conradhackett New Zealand government used to be much bigger and still is
04 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand
Source: Data extracted on 04 Jan 2016 06:49 UTC (GMT) and 07:01 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
The OECD calculations using general government expenditure lead to an estimate of the size of government in New Zealand that is at least 10 percentage points larger at times than when using core crown expenses or total taxes as a percentage of GDP. I once asked the Treasury why was this was so as they had plotted both core crown expenses and general government expenditures as a percentage of GDP in a chart. They did not know why.
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