krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/9/2009
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One of my long-running interests/concerns has been the decline and rise of US inequality over the past century, which is closely tied to the fall and rise of intense partisanship; here's one of the McCarty-Poole-Rosenthal pictures:
But what caused the fall and rise of inequality? A lot of ...
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The Anglo Disease: regulation vs pay
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[image] Via Krugman , this fantastic graph which shows the simultaneity over decades of deregulation and higher incomes in the financial sector (where, of course, averages hide vast differences between the majority of employees which are probably not paid much more than elsewhere, and the top layer). People with higher incomes are interested in lower taxes, and are able to fund political campaigns, which suggests this has all the makings of a self-reinforcing cycle:
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