> Carl Remick quoted:
>
> >Every country in the world has a few rich people and then a long
> >tail of poorer and poorer people. In fact, not only does a
> >filthy-rich minority always hog most of the wealth, but the
> >mathematical form of the distribution is the same everywhere.
>
the same? that kind of rules out the need for any historically specific anlaysis it would seem.
steve