Tag Archives: progressive tax

Piketty on the U.S. Presidential race

Posted on 2016/02/20 by LastTechAge

Piketty makes upbeat comments on Bernie Sanders and what he implies about US inequality trends. Just to pass on a very optimistic comment from Thomas Piketty, on our on-going struggle against the American convergence to a government controlled by an … Continue reading →

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Piketty discovers America or vice versa

Posted on 2014/06/26 by LastTechAge

Piketty describes the growth of U.S. and World inequality with unique large data resource. Our review of Capital In The 21st Century The French economist Thomas Piketty  published the French edition of his new book Capital In The Twenty-First Century … Continue reading →

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Greg Mankiw and the real Middle-Class

Posted on 2013/01/08 by LastTechAge

An article by N. Gregory Mankiw in the New York Times’ Sunday Business section (2012 Dec 30 paper) attempts to compare the current tax paid by the “top” 1% of the workers, that fraction who earn the most income (the … Continue reading →

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