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EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 900+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.

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episode 595: Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts


Gabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on inequality and the distribution of income in the United States over the last 35 years. Zucman finds that there has been no change in income for the bottom half of the income distribution over this time period with large gains going to the top 1%. The conversation explores the robustness of this result to various assumptions and possible explanations for the findings.


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 September 18, 2017  1h12m
 
 
EconTalk: Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts Hätte mir etwas mehr erwartet. Irgendwie kann der Host nur schlecht verbergen, dass es von den Piketty/Zucmsn Thesen nicht viel hält …
curated by egghat in Egghat empfiehlt | September 18, 2017