HeyJaredThe Capitalist Welfare State
The international blog of the Swedish economist Andreas Bergh, author of "Open Markets" and "Sweden and the revival of the capitalist welfare state"
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Measuring Global Convergence Without Measuring Income (opens the original)
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Is the world becoming more equal? The answer remains contested - see e.g. Tibor Rutar’s discussion of a new paper by Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan where they suggest that global income convergence and poor countries catching up is a myth (!).How hard can it be?But honestly, how hard can it be? For sure, comparing real income and purchasing power across very different
Open Markets is now available on Amazon (opens the original)
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