Throw in the towel, it's futile!
-B.
Eubulides wrote:
>
> Well, look at the abstract again:
>
> Economists who yearn for the redistribution of
wealth in an ideal
> society are up against history. According to a
recent study, the
> uneven distribution of wealth in a society appears
to be a universal
> law that holds true for economies in many different
societies, from
> ancient Egypt to modern Japan and the U.S. This
distribution may
> reflect a simple natural law analogous to a
100-year-old theory
> describing the distribution of energy in a gas.
>
>
> ............So, take your own advice. If the above
isn't a poor attempt to cloak
> a deterministic approach to investigating
historico-economic processes, along
> with the implied claim that the invisible hand is
more powerful than
> individual/collective agents, I don't know what is.