tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post6579506103766484229..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: CBO Against Piketty?Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-13893006663598481122015-02-20T17:39:44.203-05:002015-02-20T17:39:44.203-05:00If anyone is interested here is some work people a...If anyone is interested here is some work people are doing to translate Piketty's data into R: http://simplystatistics.org/2014/06/30/piketty-in-r-markdown-we-need-some-help-from-the-crowd/Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-47437854310307331652015-02-19T02:38:31.762-05:002015-02-19T02:38:31.762-05:00Allowing medical price inflation to count as decre...Allowing medical price inflation to count as decreasing income inequality, as this study does, is a ridiculous procedure.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-46820175769892926332015-02-17T23:26:45.089-05:002015-02-17T23:26:45.089-05:00Piketty's book is more concerned about the con...Piketty's book is more concerned about the concentration of patrimony/net assets/wealth than on the concentration of income on any given year, in fact ( at least in the original french edition) he argues extensively against the validity of using gini coefficients. Piketty's conclusions of increasing wealth concentration in the US since the 1970's are also corroborated by other Dan Gonzaleznoreply@blogger.com