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Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley

Income Distribution Reality

A Basic Economic Lesson

American Excess

Education, Assortative Mating, and Inequality

The Left is Always Right

Thomas Sowell Podcast

Consumption vs. Income

Low Income, High Marginal Tax Rate

Interesting Tidbits

Gintis vs. Redistribution

Ongoing Escalation of Income

Wages and Education

Mankiw Scores One

Race, Marriage, and Poverty

Good News, Bad News

Random Things to Read

The Inequality Fuss

What American Poverty Debates Look Like to Haitians

Taxes and the Two-Income Trap

Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley

Income Distribution Reality

A Basic Economic Lesson

American Excess

Education, Assortative Mating, and Inequality

The Left is Always Right

Thomas Sowell Podcast

Consumption vs. Income

Low Income, High Marginal Tax Rate

Interesting Tidbits

Gintis vs. Redistribution

Ongoing Escalation of Income

Wages and Education

Mankiw Scores One

Race, Marriage, and Poverty

Good News, Bad News

Random Things to Read

The Inequality Fuss

What American Poverty Debates Look Like to Haitians

Taxes and the Two-Income Trap

Who Are the High Earners?

The Inequality Issue

Demographics and Income Distribution

Summers to the Dark Side?

Mental Health, Poverty, Health Insurance, and Human Capital

Marriage and Caste

Income Mobility

Marriage and Poverty

The CBO on income dynamics

Wealth and Self-Control

Tyler Cowen on Income Inequality

Investment Bankers, Dentists, and the Inequality Puzzle

Barone on the Kling Scenario

Kling vs. Lang

I Heart Kevin Lang

Scion of Tax Consumers: My Calhounian Class Autobiography

Write Your Calhounian Class Autobiography

Paul Graham on the Distribution of Income

Tax-eaters

Lawrence Katz on Inequality

Atlas Left a Big Tip

The Distribution of Tax Burdens

Marriage, Income, Cause, and Effect

Mental Health

The Median Household

Marriage and Inequality

How Redistribution Really Works

Inequality

Speaking of Rising Inequality

CEO Pay and Market Signals

Universal Savings Accounts

Baker vs. Reynolds

Why aren't there more investment bankers?

Baker vs. Summers

Disrupted Families

Shifty Statistics

A Middle-Class World

The Distribution of Consumer Spending

Hispanic Unwed Mothers

Families and Inequality

Taxes vs. Philanthropy

James Webb's Macaca

Middle-Class Squeeze

Envy and Resentment

The Internet Boom, Location, and Income Distribution

Consumption Mobility and Inequality

Envy and Status

The Escalation of Well-Being

Tax Reform

Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy

Adjusting Income for Age

Homage to Catalonia, II

My Student Gets a Letter in the Washington Post

Improvements for the Poor

The Power of Personality: What Happens When You Give a Homeless Man $100k?

Thoughts on the Super-Rich

I am not an IQ-ist

Mankiw's Got Class

Boudreaux Class Autobio

Class and Poverty

My Future Calhounian Class Autobio

Bloggers' Class Autobios

Class Once More

My Class Autobiography

One-Sentence Class Autobio of Tyler Cowen

Class Autobio of Mark Thoma

My Short Class Autobiography

My Future Class History

Move Over, Milgram

Wealthy Ugandan Expats

Working Poor

Poverty and Social Pressure

Entrepreneurs and "giving back"

Escalation of Income

Squeezed Up

Nobel Laureates speak

Productivity vs. Distribution

Middle Class Squeezed Up

Overspending and Obesity

Barbell Labor Market?

Tax Cuts for the Rich

Who is Rich?

Athletes and Entertainers

Gender Differences

What Explains Inequality?

Income Redistribution Proposals

Poverty and Income Distribution

Income Mobility

Libertarian Redistribution

Minimum Wage and CEO Pay

Imputed Income

Information Goods and Income Distribution

High income and Wealth

Income Distribution Stories

Comment of the Week, 2003-06-04

The Poor Get Richer

China, India and Deflation

Measuring Tax Progressivity

Migratory Lucky Duckies


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May 13, 2008

Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley



He speaks on this video. He is a very powerful speaker. One theme of the talk is the importance of......MORE

April 25, 2008

Income Distribution Reality



In his new book Unequal Democracy, Larry Bartels writes (p.7), families at the 20th percentile experienced declining real incomes in......MORE

April 23, 2008

A Basic Economic Lesson



In the latest econtalk, Russ Roberts just speaks himself. The result may be my favorite of all of his podcasts.......MORE

April 7, 2008

American Excess



From a longer essay on Inequality and Excess: I feel awkward and defensive when the subject of economic inequality comes......MORE

March 26, 2008

Education, Assortative Mating, and Inequality



I am going to combine comments on two papers cited by Tyler Cowen. First, he cites a paper on inequality......MORE

February 25, 2008

The Left is Always Right



Lane Kenworthy writes, The most striking of the report’s findings is how little of the federal government’s mobility expenditure goes......MORE

February 25, 2008

Thomas Sowell Podcast



This week's econtalk conversation, between Russ Roberts and Thomas Sowell, is not to be missed. My favorite nugget is when......MORE

February 13, 2008

Consumption vs. Income



Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan write, The bottom deciles of consumption exceed those for income, suggesting under-reporting of......MORE

February 8, 2008

Low Income, High Marginal Tax Rate



Jeff Frankel quotes Jeff Liebman: "There are some excellent papers that carefully model how the cumulative effects of the welfare......MORE

January 8, 2008

Interesting Tidbits



Professor Donald Lacombe of Ohio University is offering a course in Econoblogging! Will this test Tyler's assertion that the best......MORE

November 27, 2007

Gintis vs. Redistribution



Herb Gintis writes, if the wealth were redistributed to the middle class, the US investment rate would fall, since the......MORE

November 13, 2007

Ongoing Escalation of Income



A Wall Street Journal editorial reports, The Treasury study examined a huge sample of 96,700 income tax returns from 1996......MORE

November 7, 2007

Wages and Education



Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz write, Relative demand shifts favoring more-educated workers have not been particularly rapid since 1980. Instead,......MORE

November 6, 2007

Mankiw Scores One



Greg Mankiw writes, Almost all sweeping health reform proposals involve higher taxes on the rich to provide benefits for those......MORE

October 31, 2007

Race, Marriage, and Poverty



Walter Williams writes, There's one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only......MORE

October 30, 2007

Good News, Bad News



Ricardo Hausmann sees the silver lining. According to the latest gender related statistics published in the 2007 World Development Indicators......MORE

October 24, 2007

Random Things to Read



Terry J. Fitzgerald in the Minneapolis Fed Review: Fringe benefits have become an increasingly important part of employee compensation over......MORE

October 18, 2007

The Inequality Fuss



Some recent posts on the inequality fuss: 1. Greg Mankiw writes If I were a redistributionist, here is what I......MORE

September 13, 2007

What American Poverty Debates Look Like to Haitians



This story from The Onion gets funnier once you realize that - by world standards - the "American poor" are......MORE

August 8, 2007

Taxes and the Two-Income Trap



Todd Zywicki writes, In turns out that for the 1970s family, paying 24% of its income in taxes works out......MORE


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