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1 day ago by Vino S

A friend of mine pointed me to this article on incomes policies in Britain in the 1970s. Incomes policies are thought to have not been effective because of the way in which the last one ended - when in 1978/9 there was a wave of strikes in protest at the Government's 5% pay norm. However, there had ...

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4 days ago by admin

Manora asked: The government adapted strict monetary and fiscal policies to control the rate of inflation during this period. Rigid monetary policies were used to limit credit expansion in the private sector. The fiscal policies were mostly the levying of import and export taxes. The export taxes we ...

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26 days ago by Mark Thoma

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz say that "the educational slowdown caused much of the recent rise in economic inequality," and that "the future of inequality and this nation depend on increasing the supply of highly educated workers," [An alternative view is here: Krugman vs Mankiw: The 80-20 Falla ...

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27 days ago by economistmom

Among the many things you might not understand about the tax policies proposed in President Obama’s first budget–because the Obama Administration doesn’t like to talk about the biggest part of their budget, the extension of most of the 2001 and 2003 “Bush” tax cuts–here’s a biggie: “rich” people get ...

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39 days ago by Paul R. Dorasil

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41 days ago by admin

And that’s quite a clever guy, uhu? So we can see a lot happening in data in the coming years. We will be able to look at the income distributions in completely new ways. This is the income distribution of China, 1970, This is the income distribution of the United States, 1970, almost no overlap, al ...

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41 days ago by Bang

This was an interesting post on Andrew Gelman's stats blog. Basically, it talks about a new way of thinking about "human development" in the US by state, and compares it to an old way - the inverse of the distance to the Canadian border. What's about as interesting was this comment to a Catherine Ca ...

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44 days ago by Mark Thoma

Lane Kenworthy: Do schools make inequality worse?, by Lane Kenworthy: “Far from leaning against economic inequality, U.S. schools make it worse.” This sentiment, from a recent Clive Crook op-ed, expresses a view that’s commonplace on both the left and the right, and among both proponents and opponen ...

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50 days ago by admin

Last week, I highlighted parts of my favorite Paul Krugman book , Pop Internationalism . Here’s another of my favorite quotes from Krugman. I used it in a sidebar for the Frank Levy article, “Distribution of Income,” in the first edition of my encyclopedia of economics Go here to see the original: K ...

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53 days ago by Bang

Why hasn't anyone mentioned the fact that Friedman and Nixon advocated a Family Assistance Prgram Negative Income Tax system to supplement and reform welfare and create incentives for poor families to work.

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