With greetings from Greg Mankiw
9 January, 2013 at 21:01 | Posted in Politics & Society | 3 Comments
Commenting on the development of top income shares in different countries, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw surmises on his blog:
Might the rising share of the top 1 percent be related to the increasing use of English as a global language?
3 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Leave a Reply
Recent Comments
Reading List
Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Pool by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds.
I’m ashamed to be an American…
Comment by paul— 9 January, 2013 #
Lars, Re English versus Swedish and other languages, is there any chance of you telling us more about what Swedish economists are doing? I used to be fascinated by the labour market research done by Lars Calmfors and other Swedish labour market economists 20 or so years ago. That lot seem to have gone a bit quite in recent years. Perhaps that is because there is not the enthusiasm for “active labour market policies” that there used to be.
Comment by Ralph Musgrave— 10 January, 2013 #
Obviously banks need to start “English level targeting”..
Comment by Dave Holden— 11 January, 2013 #