[JPJones]

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[Rick_Michael]

nice thread....

[vanilla swirl]

fascinating!

[harpu]

Good stuff...kept for posterity.

[PENANCE]

Are the dates correct on graphs #5 and #6?

And, what is graph #7 measured in? Percent of GDP?

[4Liberty]

[1010RD]

The Left has been pushing the Gini coefficient. It’s very misleading and manipulable and doesn’t really say anything about an economy on the ground.

FR post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2823746/posts

Good comments at site:

http://persquaremile.com/2011/12/16/income-inequality-in-the-roman-empire/#comment-3742

Gini Coefficient:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

Not surprisingly Corrado Gini is a fascist and instituted much of fascistic thinking. The Left seems to always find itself knee deep in fascism. Why is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrado_Gini

[Sergio]

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[Marie]

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