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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Is anything else holding back the recovery?
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In a recent post, I compared nations and found no evidence that ones with more inequality are recovering more slowly from the recession. Th...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Congress, Cockroaches, and France
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A recent survey that's been getting some attention asks people whether they have a more favorable opinion of Congress or various widely ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Is Inequality Holding back the Recovery?
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In the New York Times, Joseph Stiglitz says " Inequality is Holding Back the Recovery ," but Paul Krugman is skeptical and says...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Liberals according to conservatives, conservatives according to liberals
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A 2006 CBS News surveys asked people who said they were conservative a few questions about liberals and asked people who said they were libe...
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Labor Shares Around the World
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A few weeks ago, Paul Krugman noted that the share of compensation in national income has declined over the last 40 years or so. That is, ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Grasshopper and Ant
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In the late 1980s, a survey of people in seven nations (France, Italy, Japan, the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and West Germany) ask...
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Kids Today
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In 1952, a survey on "Religion and the American People" asked "Do you think that young people today have as strong a sense of...
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