Re: an absolute must for all world systems researchers

Arno,
Thank you for your post; truly a very interesting article. Two things springs 
to mind after browsing through it:

* The report concerns distribution of income within and between national 
economies. What about distribution of assets, savings, ownership of capital 
goods and other means of production (not forgetting human capital)? Or can we 
assume that income in general is proportional to the value of assets, savings 
etc?

* Are national boundaries feasible for measuring global distributions of 
income? How can the survey proposed at the end of the article be designed to 
get a "complete perception of world income distribution"? Is PPP-adjustment 
enough?

Yours,

Carl Nordlund

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tausch, Arno <Arno.Tausch@bmsg.gv.at>
To: <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: an absolute must for all world systems researchers


> I will not talk  at length about this very important article:
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> http://www.undp.org/hdro/rodasmartini.pdf
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> Kindest regards
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> Arno Tausch
>