Re: an absolute must for all world systems researchers

After reading the article posted by Arno Tausch, I would recommend reading 
Robert Wade's summary of analysis of global income distribution published 
in the Economist April 26, 2001. In this article he argues that both 
traditional GNP measures and the PPP measures of income distribution 
suggest that the world is becoming more unequal.
-Tom

Thomas Klak
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At 09:11 PM 8/14/01 +0200, Carl Nordlund wrote:
>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:
> >
> >
> > http://www.undp.org/hdro/rodasmartini.pdf
> >
> >
> > Kindest regards
> >
> >
> > Arno Tausch
> >