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Income Distribution
when it comes to hyper-obsession with invisibly fine status distinctions, no banker could hold a candle to the average academic
Read the whole thing, and also re-read Economic Man vs. Status Man.
Incidentally, in Learning Economics, I quoted ‘Jane Galt’ at one point. Robert Solow chided me for quoting a “blogger.” It was interesting that he raised an objection about her status (or lack thereof) as opposed to the content of the quote.
READER COMMENTS
luispedro
Sep 6 2006 at 2:12pm
You should have quoted “a writer of the Economist, writing in his personal capacity, said…” or something to the effect.
Phil
Sep 6 2006 at 3:38pm
You quoted Solow? I can’t believe you would quote someone who isn’t even qualified enough to have his own economics blog.
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