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Your link gives the Gini for US : 0.413
by gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
Your link gives the Gini for US : 0.413
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoTFA states “the researchers used a social table, which categorizes people by social position along with associated incomes” to estimate Roman and Han Gini coëfficients. The Gini being calculated for that era isn’t meant to be compared to the modern metric because it’s a different measure; the researchers were careful in couching this in a way the article is not.
- gsf_emergency_2 2y agoAha I see source of the misunderstanding the original paper's IER is absolutely meant to be compared across eras. (It tries to correct for the distortions of Gini I mentioned above) Tiny bit of bad faith, IER for US is ~0.41(!), much less extractive than Han or Rome. IER is not covered by visualcapitalist.com which hints that they are not a totally good faith source as well..