Harford, Tim
1. The Economist just published an article about inheritance as a growing factor in the increase in the Gini Index (a measure of inequality). 2. I have long felt that inheritance taxes are an ideal solution to the problem. They work slowly, but are minimally invasive of property rights. ...
This may cause a sense of inequality among them.As for "city" kids, they are not really rich. Their parents may have an average (中等的) income. But they still want their kids to wear good - looking clothes. When they have to wear uniforms, they may feel disappointed.However, there ...
International Commodity Agreements have been demonstrated time and again to be ineffectual as a means of exploiting a private or government monopoly position; they have, however, been demonstrated to retard economic development and increase income inequality within the Less Developed Nations where they ...
The most corrosive effect on the public’s trust in the system was that after each crisis the rich became richer and inequality reached new heights. Eventually, decades after governments had stopped managing their economies in the interest of shared prosperity and social harmony as Keynes had ...
McGinnis told CBS News, "The study suggests that, although employment conditions and levels of income inequality did not independently explain differences among communities in life expectancy, factors such as healthier behaviors, higher graduation levels, higher expenditure levels for government assistance ...
Inter-industry wage differentials in China, measured in terms of average employment earnings by industry, are significant and have been increasing since 19... 史先诚 - 《China Economist》 被引量: 12发表: 2007年 AnAnalysisoftheIssueofInter-IndustryIncomeInequalityinChina After entering the new cent...
This is the“savings glut” hypothesis of Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. Mr Haldane elaborates this hypothesis as“excess savings in the east, deficient investment in the west, worsening demographic trends and rising inequality”. 第二种解释的核心在于储蓄和投资意愿的转变。这...
of small businesses. Farmers were now able to coordinate production, allocation, and pricing levels in semi-private agricultural markets. This would inevitably lead to income inequality as some farmers would have better luck than others. The new economic policy also led to small industrial and ...
As mentioned before, the inequality of taxes proved another gap in the social classes. “The Revolution had been accomplished in the minds of men long before it was translated into fact... The middle class...was sensitive to their inferior legal position. The Revolution came from them-the mi...