For a 1-page black-and-white flier in PDF format for easy duplication purposes, CLICK HERE) The L-Curve By David Chandler Through teaching introductory astronomy over the years I have come to realize that most people cannot distinguish the relative sizes of millions and billions. If you're not quite sure how to picture a billion, as compared to a million, CLICK HERE. Big numbers aren't just for ...

Closing the Wealth Gap by P.J. O'Rourke P.J. O'Rourke is the Cato Institute's Mencken research fellow. He delivered these remarks at a June 1997 Cato conference in Shanghai, China. It's important to remember that this is not a technocratic conference. We are not here primarily to discuss the hows and whys and ifs of Chinese economic development. On those subjects, more powerful people than ...

Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze Our economy is marked by a very uneven distribution of wealth and income. For example, it is estimated that 28% of the total net wealth is held by the richest 2% of families in the U.S. The top 10% holds 57% of the net wealth. If homes and other real estate are excluded, the concentration of ownership of financial wealth is even more glaring.

The Causes Of Income Inequality There is a great deal of talk about economic angst, brought on, some say, by growing class warfare. However, economists who look at the numbers argue this is not a conclusion borne out by the numbers. The poor are not losing ground, researchers say. They are falling behind because the center of the pack is pulling ahead. About the same share of families get by ...

China: a shared poverty to uneven wealth Taejoon Han The George Washington University The Elliott School of International Affairs ECON 270 - Chinese Economy The picture of Shanghai was excerpted from the following website: http://www.dkraft.se/docs/people/aj/kina/ Introduction China has been experiencing rapid transitions since Deng XiaoPing launched economic reforms in 1978. In a large ...

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