One of my hobbies is audio, and I am a regular participant over at Audio Science Review, as well as some other sites. I was interested in the subject as a young teenager, and used to listen to a reel-to-reel … Continue reading
I came across this paper a while ago. This data is as of 2012:
Two new additions to the literature: Russ Roberts, who has the most frustration with the fact that other studies are not truly longitudinal And this meta-study from the Urban Institute. Includes the capture below
Here is the 2015 update. It separates the various components of income, tax, and transfer programs across quantiles, providing a deeper picture of how they have changed. One thing that jumps out is the category that makes a difference in … Continue reading
David Henderson has comprehensive federal tax brackets (before whatever it is Congress may pass before 2017 ends) by income, courtesy of the CBO. These include payroll taxes, as well as estimated tax incidence of corporate taxes. Here’s the description … Continue reading
Using Tax Data to Measure Long Term Trends in Income Inequality makes further adjustments for the 1986 tax reform and corporate income. Unsurprisingly, this significantly reduces the increases in income inequality. Continue reading
Is Yale throwing free expression under the bus in an attempt to cure campus racism? The authoritarian impulse to have Christakis fired is alarming and over the top. Treating the students like children, and supporting authoritarian responses to free expression are not solutions. They are wrong from both a normative free expression perspective and a consequentialist perspective. Continue reading
I often refer back to this, but Megan’s old site is lost to the wayback machine. So here is the text from the good old days of blogging in 2002: November 24, 2002 From the desk of Jane Galt: The … Continue reading
Perry Metzger has an amusing post about Piketty and the “Shoe Event Horizon” from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: On Frogstar B, for a time shoe production increased faster than the rate of overall economic growth. As a result, … Continue reading