[lbo-talk] UN: Richest 2% of adults own more than half of global household wealth

[bitch]

Weird. I haven't investigated the link further as of yet, but this was the 
same stat they used in a poli sci textbook for an intro course in 1985?! I 
take it pioneering must be in terms of their methodology. I remember that, 
the other thing they'd said was that, were we to disburse the world's 
wealth evenly, everyone would have $60k a year -- which was  a fuckload of 
money in 1985. Of course my libertarian and sexually harassing prof was 
quick to explain that things would not quite work out that way because 
communism would mean that people wouldn't work as hard, yadda yadda.

At 08:26 AM 12/5/2006, you wrote:
>[URL at the bottom - B.]
>Pioneering Study Show Richest 2% own Half World Wealth
>http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/2006-2007/2006-2007-1/wider-wdhw-launch-5-12-2006/wider-wdhw-media-launch-5-12-2006.htm

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