Measuring Income and Income Inequality
Conor J. Clarke & Wojciech Kopczuk Income inequality is important, but attempts to measure it arrive at strikingly different conclusions. Why? We use recent disputes over measuring United States income inequality to return to first principles about both the income concept and inequality measurement. We emphasize two broad points. First, no measure of the income distribution is […]
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Παρακολουθήστε εδώ την συζήτηση των Πωλ Κρούγκμαν και Ζάχαρι Κάρτερ με θέμα το (έξοχο) βιβλίο του τελευταίου The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (Random House, 2020, pp. 656).
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
Thomas Piketty, Michael Sandel (2025) Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters. Cambridge: Polity. pp. vi + 119. In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, […]