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Why is the Australian top 0.1% far less greedy than the UK, US saying Canadian top 0.1%?

Figure 1: top 0.1% share of gross income, Australia, UK, USA and Canada since 1946 Source: Chartbook of Economic Inequality. The top 0.1% in Australia is earning not much more than it did in 1946. For most of the post-war period, the Australian top 0.1% earned less than what it earned in 1946. The only spike in the earnings of the Australian top 0.1% occurred after the top tax rate of 66% was…

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More heat than light in the recent inequality debate

The rise in articles about inequality in NZ sure doesn't match the data on inequality. youtube.com/watch?v=uCT7aE… http://t.co/z2eWKgXJiL— Eric Crampton (@EricCrampton) June 26, 2015

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"You didn't build that" – which of sport superstars, celebrities and top CEOs earn their pay more?

"You didn’t build that" – which of sport superstars, celebrities and top CEOs earn their pay more?

Defenders have also pointed to the pay of pro ballplayers or Hollywood stars, but they do not determine their own pay (as CEOs do) and are paid based on performance. Once they begin to fail, they are dumped. By contrast, CEO pay isn’t tied to performance in any meaningful way. Bruce Murphy – The Incredible Rise of CEO Pay It’s a big concession to say that athletes and celebrities earn their pay…

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What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know: global poverty has been declining faster than at any point in human history

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Would you rather make $50,000 in today’s New Zealand or $100,000 in the 1980s before neo-liberalism?

Ezra Klein and Matt O’Brien posed an interesting variation of Brad De Long’s Time Machine question. O’Brien asked: Try this thought experiment. Adjusted for inflation, would you rather make $50,000 in today’s world or $100,000 in 1980’s? In other words, is an extra $50,000 enough to get you to give up the internet and TV and computer that you have now? The answer isn’t obvious. And if $100,000…

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#good old days #Left over Left #left-wing fantasies #life expectancies #neoliberalism #The Great Enrichment #time machine #welfare state

Ben Elton on the fraying of the Left

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Why do these top 0.1 percenters get a pass from the Occupied Movement and Twitter Left?

The 25 richest comedians (or why not to go into standup comedy) from @randal_olson randalolson.com/2015/03/04/top… http://t.co/cp3lSnuPOf— Tyler Vigen (@TylerVigen) March 17, 2015

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The essence of the Left over Left

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