Popular posts this week
- Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
- Politicians’ ability to persuade citizens about policies depends on people’s values and priorities.
- Politics in church may hurt religion, but it helps churches.
- Book Review: Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives by Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross
Lower levels of inequality are linked with greater innovation in economies
Lower levels of inequality are linked with greater innovation in economies
Can countries be both economically efficient and have equal societies? Conventional wisdom suggests that this is not the case. Jonathan Hopkin, Victor Lapuente and Lovisa Moller take a close look at the empirical evidence. They find that the less unequal a country is, the more likely it is to be innovative. They argue that, while the US is a powerful […]