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Aha 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 G
by gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
Aha 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..