>Hmm, where'd you get these numbers? Here's what I have for 1993 from
>Branko Milanovic at the World Bank. The figures are pretty old, but
>generally these things don't change too much over a decade.
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>They sure do in Russia. This country's Ginni coefficient used to be
>microscopic. Now it's something like the US'.
Russia is the exception that proves the rule - massive economic collapse and total transformation of social relations. That's what it takes.
Doug