Heather Boushey on Radio Doug

[Brad De Long]

>It ain't written up anywhere yet. Heather gave me a copy of some 
>tables summarizing her findings, which I'm quoting in A New Economy? 
>(now racing towards completion - reserve your copy today!). The real 
>wage of the bottom half of NYC workers fell by about 20% between the 
>late 1980s and the late 1990s. Only the top 10% was up - and that by 
>just 2%. Heather didn't say this, but the real winners were the top 
>1-2%, who don't really show up in the Census/BLS Current Population 
>Survey, which is what she based these stats on. She also reported 
>that the share of the NYC workforce earning less than $10.73 an hour 
>(in 1999 dollars) rose from 30% in the late 1980s to 42% in the late 
>1990s.
>
>Doug

Done...

How do advance orders via Amazon affect publishing-industry decisions 
about such things as first print runs and desire to spend money 
pushing books through the pipeline?

Brad DeLong