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inequality
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If Only Polly Toynbee Actually Understood Numbers
Polly Toynbee wants us all to know that inequality is higher than we had assumed. This coming from…
Michael Marmot Really Is A Card, Inn’ee?
Sir Michael Marmot is insistent that economic inequality leads to health inequality. Well, OK, perhaps it does. Marmot…
Wealth Doesn’t Add To Lifespan
What has been found here is that greater wealth correlates with greater disability free lifespan. This is not…
How Much Inequality Is The Right Amount Of Inequality?
There are of course those who insist that the correct amount of inequality is none. Although those tend…
Entire Idiocy About Socioeconomic Inequality And Premature Mortality
Sadly the cretins are out in force again. This time it’s a repeat of the really stupid assumptions…
If You’ve £10 And No Debt You’re Richer Than 10% Of Britons – Added Together
The Equality Trust treats us to a feast of economic nonsense today in their whinges about wealth inequality.…
Chile’s Inequality Revolt – So, When Do The Riots Start In Costa Rica?
There’s a certain amount of rioting going on in Chile at present. All commentators are entirely convinced that…
Oh Dear, When Physicists Do Economics
Another one of those lovely examples. When physicists decide to come and do economics. The argument here being…
Mind Gargling Nonsense About Inequality Under Communism
It’s astonishing that people can be this damn ignorant about the past: Since the fall of the Berlin…
The Vile Cost Of Neoliberalism
From the Mirrlees Review we get this chart. Showing the true and vile cost of neoliberalism: As the…