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Russ Roberts
Personal blog · russroberts.medium.comeconomicsphilosophy
Russ Roberts's personal blog at russroberts.medium.com covers economics and philosophy. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Do the Rich Get All the Gains from Economic Growth?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Russ Roberts's Medium posts on economic inequality and growth, including how income quintile statistics work and what 'happened in 1972'. The posts are cited as support in discussions of wealth and degrowth.
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Most-linked posts?
- Do the Rich Get All the Gains from Economic Growth?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-13
What Hacker News says?
As economist Russ Roberts often points out in these inequality discussions, the quintiles that are used to show growth only in the upper class does not refer to the same people over time. When you follow people over time, they generally move up into higher quintiles thus "getting richer." https://russroberts.medium.com/do-the-rich-capture-all-the-g... He also talks about "what happened in 1972" is more about demogra…
Comment linking /do-the-rich-capture-all-the-gains-from-economic-growth-c96d93101f9c
on “Just Be Rich”Submitted Do the Rich Get All the Gains from Economic Growth? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe author cherry picked US, where, BTW, a substantial chunk of GDP increase doesn't go to households, and therefore, to consumption, but into financial assets [1]. More serious analyses have shown that decoupling is as "magical thinking" as de-growth.[2] I agree that degrowth is a hard pill to digest, and that converting our economy to greener alternatives may even fuel growth for some time, but I can't see how inf…
Comment linking /do-the-rich-capture-all-the-gains-from-economic-growth-c96d93101f9c
on “People are realizing that degrowth is bad”Submitted The Economist as Scapegoat (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apples and Oranges: A Critique of Utilitarianism – Part I as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lonely Man with a Gun as a story · 1 points
HN discussion