Income Inequality
February 25th, 2010 by 
reality
I’ve alluded to this subject before, but thanks to my wife for a link to a fascinating set of data on the corrosive social effects of income inequality.
Posted in Income & Consumption, Truth and Trivia | 
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February 26th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I’d be curious to see what it’s like with a different data set to generate the figures. Income inequality is interesting, but as usual with such large differences it’s difficult to be honest and not be influenced by what you want to see. Population size, social maturity, sense of entitlement…
Not to mention, that income inequality in developing nations is far more damaging.
“We included only countries that
had income inequality data and were among the richest
50 in the world and excluded those with populations of
less than two million to avoid possible tax havens.
This meant adding Australia (21 indicators), Japan
(19 indicators), Israel (39 indicators), New Zealand
(20 indicators), and Slovenia (25 indicators) to the
Unicef set, and excluding the Czech Republic,
Hungary, and Poland. The 23 countries included
were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom, and the US.”
Where is Singapore?