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nice thread....
fascinating!
Good stuff...kept for posterity.
And, what is graph #7 measured in? Percent of GDP?
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
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