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To: epicure who wrote (10890)	2/5/2006 1:57:04 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 544232

Sorry about the length of the article. Don't worry about it. I was simply using that as a source of humor. The article is good; unevenly written as is usually the case with papers to be delivered at conferences, which it appears to be; much of the language is tribal language, which is appropriate, just some time since that particular tribe was the language I used on some regular basis; and is written at odd angles relative to questions of data and explanation. On this latter score, the data seems good and the author asks large questions. But the connect between the two is not all that clear. The assertions about the growth in inequality in the US, and the much faster rate relative to other developed countries, are solid. And, apparently, this data permits that latter observation to be made with more assurance than in the past. It's the much more interesting questions as to why this is the case that I'm left a bit befuddled by. The last time I read in this literature, explanations fell into two large categories: because of political institutions and because of economic changes. Attempts to separate the two were labored. Best I could tell it just boiled down to guess work. I'm not yet certain this attempt gets further down that road or not. Even though he asserts that he does.