On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:30:06 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

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Ideologues of the mid-20th century, full of wacky ideas that have
little or no basis in experiece.
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With the following results:
http://tinyurl.com/kxt29cz
"Paris (AFP) - The gap between the haves and the have-nots
globally is now at the same level as in the 1820s, the OECD
said Thursday, warning it was one of the most "worrying"
developments over the past 200 years.

In a major report on global well-being over the past two
centuries, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development noted inequality shot up after globalisation
took root in the 1980s. http://tinyurl.com/k66vu8l

Researchers studied income levels in 25 countries, charted
them back in time to 1820 and then collated them as if the
world were a single country.

The results showed that income inequality dropped sharply in
the middle of the 20th century -- which the OECD put down to
what it called an "egalitarian revolution", notably with the
rise of Communism in Eastern Europe -- but then spiked more
recently."


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"