The sceptical turn in the US inequality literature: what The Economist overlooked

Summer, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-4978-7743 (2020) The sceptical turn in the US inequality literature: what The Economist overlooked. LSE Business Review (04 Jan 2020), pp. 1-2. Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The Economist's recent briefing "Measuring the 1%: Economists are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality" has caused a stir amongst inequality scholars. The report, published at the end of November 2019, suggests that new US research has refuted the widely held view that economic inequality has been rising in recent decades. Researchers at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute disagreed with their take, so we set out to explain why in a brief rejoinder that was published by The Economist.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Law
Subjects:	K Law H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2020 15:15
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 19:59
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103836

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