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    Inequality Conundrums

    April 30, 2019

    What am I supposed to make of the Scheidel book? Having waded through it I emerge with a grim pessimism — certainly more than when I started. The basic thesis, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, is that periods of relatively greater equality are rare in history and that they ebb away soon after […]

    Economics, Politics / democracy, economic theory, inequality, Lucas, plutocracy /

    Power: Take Two

    April 15, 2019

    I have been reading Walter Scheidel’s wonderful book “The Great Leveler”, which gives us a very long period perspective on inequality.  Were I to be limited to only two books on inequality, this would be one.  It covers the ebb and flow of inequality over an extremely long time, with extensive discussions on civilizations as […]

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    Notes on: Power Matters

    April 10, 2019

    Let’s start with a different approach: Reality suggests there are many ways in which resources are allocated within an economy, not just one.  Economics, as it now exists in its mainstream or standard form, has withered to study just one: that which takes place in markets — where markets are strictly defined in such a way as to […]

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