Showing posts with label Income inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Income inequality. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

23/6/21: Covid19 Deaths and Income Inequality

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  An interesting, although intuitively straight forward note on the determinants of Covid19 deaths:  https://twitter.com/youyanggu/status/14...
Friday, July 24, 2020

23/7/20: Globalization and Populism: A Recent Study

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I recently came across a fascinating paper by Dani Rodrik, an economist always worth reading. The paper, titled " Why Does Globalizat...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

13/6/2020: What Do Money Supply Numbers Tell Us About Social Economics?

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What do money supply changes tell us about social economics? A lot. Take two key measures of U.S. money supply: M1, which includes funds ...
Monday, April 1, 2019

1/4/19: Hollowing out of the American Middle Class: the High Earners, and the 1-percenters

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An interesting and insightful 2016 paper from John Komlos of CESIfo, titled "Growth of Income and Welfare in the U.S. 1979-2011"...
Friday, January 11, 2019

11/1/19: Capital Gains Tax: Human Capital vs Other Forms of Capital

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This is exactly  the source of policy-induced wealth inequality in the modern advanced economies: the disparity between labor income tax a...
Friday, July 13, 2018

12/7/18: Romania's Uneven convergence Path: 2007-2018

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A new World Bank report, led by Donato De Rosa, covers Romania's reforms and economic development experience. Worth a read! | "F...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

8/4/18: Talent vs Luck: Differentiating Success from Failure

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In their paper, "Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure", A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda (25 Feb...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

31/1/18: What Teachers of Piketty Miss on r vs g

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A popular refrain in today’s political and socio-economic analysis has been the need for aggressive Government intervention (via taxation...
Monday, December 11, 2017

10/12/17: Folks, there isn't a Russkie in the Alabama waste collection ditches

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No, it is not Russia Today, nor Sputnik, nor some other 'foreign agent' reporting this, but the U.S. own Newsweek . The mass media...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

28/10/17: Income Inequality: Millennials vs Baby Boomers

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OECD's recent report, "Preventing Ageing Unequally", has a wealth of data and analysis relating to old-age poverty and demog...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

10/1/17: Losing Trust and Social Capital: U.S. and Europe

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The U.S. National Intelligence Council January 9, 2017 report on future global trends titled “Paradox of Progress” cites income inequality...
Monday, December 19, 2016

19/12/16: Income Polarization in the U.S.: Building Blocks of Trumplitics

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Having just reviewed some fresh evidence on the trends and underlying drivers of declining wage growth rates in the U.S. post-Global Finan...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

18/4/16: Taxing 1%?.. Make My Day...

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An interesting paper on the dynamics of income inequality from Xavier Gabaix, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions and Benjamin Moll (Dec...
Monday, March 14, 2016

14/3/2016: Inheritance-Rich Social Disasters?

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Using microdata from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), a recent research paper from the ECB examined “the role of inher...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

26/11/15: Ireland on Inequality Heat Map

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Much has been said about inequality in Ireland. On TV off TV and elsewhere. Much of it is, sadly put, locked out factoids. You see, ineq...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

21/8/2014: Thomas Piketty: Powerful Questions, Questionable Answers

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This is an unedited version of my article for the Village magazine, August-September 2014 Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the T...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

26/4/2014: After-tax Disposable Incomes Around the World

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Here is a very revealing set of data on income based across percentiles around the advanced economies: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

8/3/2014: Democracy and Inequality: A Link of Surprising Direction?

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Everything written or co-authored by Daron Acemoglu is worth reading. Everything. And here is an example why. The man does not shy away fr...