Econowmics

Tagged: wealth inequality

Terms and Concepts

Measuring inequality: The 20:20 ratio

“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have...

Terms and Concepts

Inequality

“At first countries’ incomes were all bunched together, but with the Industrial Revolution the differences exploded, and the countries have “flown” further apart from each other. . . . [it] pushed some countries forward onto the path to higher incomes while others stayed at the point where they had been for millennia. ....