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The growth in the UK’s inequality in one graph

Posted on August 7 2012

I’ve been analysing some HMRC data this afternoon. The data in question is available here and shows the shares of total income (before and after tax) for percentile groups, 1999-00 to 2012-13. I’ve ignored the data after 2010 as it is estimated and looks hopelessly incorrect. I’ve also compensated for the fact that HMRC still can’t work out what happened
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American inequality didn’t just happen

Posted on August 7 2012

“American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.” Joseph Stiglitz in The Price of Inequality (p28) Which is an important point: never presume that the current inequality in the US or elsewhere, including he UK, is chance, or some sort of natural outcome. Nor it it even the result of market forces, or some indication of obvious ability. It’s happened
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