…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

…axis, and population on the vertical axis. For every age from 25 to 64 the bar is “one million” high. For every age after 65 the bar is shorter by…

…until there is a relatively sudden vertical jump in the middle and much higher markup levels at the end—which means a bigger total rise in capital’s share. Then: The next…

…Phillips curve was vertical. Keynes relying on casual empiricism said the same thing (not similar the same). The following passage is incomprehensible without context (and uncharacteristically turgid in context) but…

…are the odds that a child will be in a different economic stratum from his parents? It’s a darned good measure of “meritocracy.” Here’s the key graphic: On the vertical…

…showing—falling prices in gold terms.” Here’s a graph of the series: Figure 2 Addendum by Ken: Here’s the Gold Index data listed above with the Vertical Axis rescaled: Figure 3…

…among the branches of the National Government, INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 957–58 (1983), and a vertical separation of powers between the National Government and the States, New York,…

…by—convexity effects appear. Eventually, doctors have to right-size their practice. The current trend toward Vertical Integration may mitigate effects in the short term. But eventually—probably within 15 years, though it…

…scatter plot shows tax rates at any given time, and the growth rates over one year, two years, three years, and four years.) The vertical axis is the GDP growth…

…way to read this graph…. consider the cell with t to t+3 on the horizontal and 50 years on the vertical. That cell has 62.1% in it. That indicates that…