Inequality.org
Advocacy site on issues of inequality.
Policy Debate: What accounts for recent increases in income inequality?
An overview site maintained by Thomson South-Western Publishing.
Public Finance: Econ 470
Jessica Holmes' Middlebury College syllabus has several useful links.
Luxembourg Income Study
Debate Chronology
1990
6/24
Booknotes - Politics of Rich and Poor
Transcript of a discussion of Kevin Phillips' bestseller on the concentration of wealth and its effect on the political system.
1992
6/1
Ignorance and Inequality
Economist Paul Krugman defends the calculations of professional economists in the CBO, Bureau of the Census, and the Federal Reserve from right-wing polemical attacks.
9/1
The Rich, the Right, and the Facts
Paul Krugman “deconstructing” conservative arguments regarding income inequality.
1995
1/1
By Our Own Bootstraps
A Dallas Federal Reserve study which downplays inequality and emphasizes income mobility, in part based on the University of Michigan study.
6/23
How the Pie is Sliced
Economist Edward Wolff, a leading authority on income and wealth distribution, reports the latest results in the American Prospect.
September 1995
How Much Do Americans Move Up and Down the Economic Ladder?
Isabel V. Sawhill and Daniel P. McMurrer of the Urban Institute survey income immobility.
9/21
The Ideologically Invested
Johnathon Chait, writing in the American Prospect, surveys the right-wing think-tank responses to Bill Clinton’s tax policies and economist Edward Wolff’s income distribution research.
10/1
An Unequal Exchange
Berkeley economist Brad DeLong’s favorite Krugman essay contrasts Edward Wolff and Dick Armey.
1996
5/2
The Income Inequality Debate
Herbert Stein of the American Enterprise Institute grapples with implications of inequality.
June 1996
A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality
Daniel H. Weinberg of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports surveys postwar inequality, concentrating on the period since 1967.
10/29
The Spiral of Inequality
Writing in Mother Jones, Paul Krugman surveys inequality and long-range political strategies to address it:
“Most economists who study wages and income in the United States agree about the radical increase in inequality -- only the hired guns of the right still try to claim it is a statistical illusion. But not all agree about why it has happened.”Jude Wanniski email to Mother Jones
Supply-side journalist Jude Wanniski attacks Krugman’s article – by expounding on the success of the poor at the expense of the rich, as measured by…the price of gold.
11/1
Hey Jude
Krugman responds by introducing Wanniski to the mechanics of a government program called Medicare.
12/1
Solving the New Inequality – A Debate
Krugman, James Tobin, Frances Fox Piven and others respond to Richard Freeman’s opening essay.
1997
1/31
Inequality In The United States
A summary by the San Francisco Fed.
6/11
The Market, the State and the Dynamics of Public Culture
Kevin Phillips outlines and updates his cyclical thesis from his 1990 book The Politics of Rich and Poor.
10/21
When Numbers Aren’t What They Appear [Suite101 article]
Presentation of the statistical arguments of Robert Samuelson.
When Numbers Aren’t What They Appear [discussion]
A response.
12/1
Family Income Mobility--How Much Is There and Has It Changed?
Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger
12/16
An Example of Factions [Suite101 discussion]
In a discussion of campaign finance which alludes to empirical correlations between relative economic equality and economic growth.
12/28
The Bailout Bubble
Kevin Phillips on taxpayers bailing out the Investor Class.
1998
5/1
Tracking the "same families" over time shows that most Americans have experienced significant gains in living standards.
The Employment Policy Foundation emphasizes income gains made from 1979 to 1996.
1999
1/29
Painting Moderates as Extremists[Suite101 discussion]
Discussion of income inequality.
7/1
Effects of Growing Wage Disparities and Changing Family Composition on the U.S. Income Distribution
Gary Burtless of Brookings examines families and wage disparities.
Common Myths about U.S. Wage and Income Inequality
The Employment Policy Foundation responds to Richard Freeman.
10/1
Economy’s Long Surge Lifts Median to New High
Merrill Goozner is featured at Northern Illinois University’s Sociology Department website.
2000
2/7
Perennial Economic Fallacies
Thomas Sowell critiques “fallacies” of poorer getting poorer and stagnation of incomes, using numbers from the Dallas Fed study, By Our Own Bootstraps.
2/10
Inventing Bootstraps
Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer rebuts points of the Dallas Fed study, By Our Own Bootstraps, in an internet discussion of Perennial Economic Fallacies.
2/21
Perennial Sowell Fallacies
Tom Lowe, writing in the Jackson Progressive, critiques Sowell’s assertions on income distribution and income mobility.
4/1
Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership, 1983-1998
Edward Wolff updates his continuing surveys of wealth distribution in this working paper.
8/10
Rich May Get Richer, but Poor Are Also Doing Better
Virginia Postrel, writing in The New York Times, surveys economic historian Robert W. Fogel’s work on choices and leisure time and their effect on income inequality and living standards.
8/20
Most Unkindest Cuts
Paul Krugman distills the difference between the two party’s income tax proposals and counters the Wall Street Journal’s recycling of the University of Michigan study.
8/23
Al Gore’s Class Warfare
Bruce Bartlett responds to Krugman (by citing the Michigan and Dallas Fed studies.)
9/1
Any way you cut it
An Economic Policy Institute update on income inequality.
11/6
Facts Shatter Visions
Thomas Sowell renews his commentary on household statistics.
2001
2/12
The Rich Get Richer
Edward Wolff, writing in the American Prospect, enumerates proposals to alleviate the effects of income and wealth inequality.
4/1
Regional Research and Development Intensity and Earnings Inequality
Susan Dadres and Donna K. Ginther examine local links between investment and inequality.
5/31
Pathbreaking CBO Study Shows Dramatic Increases in Income Disparities in 1980s and1990s:An Analysis of the CBO Data
A Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of the latest CBO income study.
6/11
Tax Burden Rising for the Rich and Not So Rich
Bruce Bartlett, writing for the Pete Dupont-founded National Center for Policy Analysis, responds in an assessment of the tax rates on the top 5%.
9/7
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have a European-Style Welfare System?
An NBER study indicating the answer is racial animus towards African Americans; the more African Americans there are in a particular state, the less welfare spending that state will have.
2002
7/29
A Populist Phillipic
A Tech Central Station critiques the thesis of Kevin Phillips' book Wealth and Democracy.
10/20
For Richer
In a piece originally appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman outlines the decay of the mid-twentieth century American middle class and the threat of plutocracy. From the Unofficial Paul Krugman Archive. Here are his sources for this piece listed at his Princeton website.
Consequences of Income Distribution
Resulting debate from For Richer on Brad DeLong’s weblog.
11/7
As the Rich Get Richer, Are They Buying More?
Writing in The New York Times, Virginia Postrel focuses on the relative lack of consumption inequality amidst the consumer-driven economy.
12/13
What’s the Fate of the Great American Middle Class?
NOW with Bill Moyers on the middle class squeeze.
Transcript with commentary by Paul Krugman.
Bill Moyers on Class In America
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