Just the social facts, ma'am
Sunday, June 10, 2012
A level playing field
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It's often suggested that Americans care more about equal opportunity than people in other nations (see the quotation from Luigi Zingale...
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Americans and Equality: Not so exceptional
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In my last post, I wrote about a "recent Pew survey" of twenty-seven nations in which Americans were much less favorable to income...
Sunday, June 3, 2012
An interesting survey that doesn't exist
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A 2011 essay in the City Journal by Luigi Zingales, a professor at the University of Chicago business school, compared attitudes towards ec...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Maybe he had a point
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In writing my recent posts on inflation, I recalled an obscure article I read when I was in graduate school (Tjerk Huppes, "Anomie and ...
Monday, May 28, 2012
Is the stock market fair?
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In 2002, a Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll asked " Do you think the stock market--is fair to all investors, giving everyone an equal chance t...
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Who's afraid of inflation
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It depends on the party in power: in 2007, 55 percent of conservatives and 78 percent of liberals expected inflation to go up; in 2009, con...
Monday, May 21, 2012
Fear of inflation
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Currently the annual inflation rate (using the Consumer Price Index) is 2.2%. Over the last 25 years, it's averaged 2.9%. Given that h...
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