The top 1% on EconTalk
Posted By Russ Roberts On November 7, 2011 @ 11:40 am In Financial Markets,Standard of Living,Work | Comments Disabled
This week’s EconTalk guest is Steven Kaplan talking [1] about the top 1%. He and co-author Joshua Rauh gathered as much data as they could about the composition of the top 1%. They get all of the CEO’s of publicly-traded companies, the richest hedge fund managers, Wall Street execs, athletes, celebrities and some lawyers. They miss some lawyers, some celebs, execs and owners of privately-held companies. Kaplan argues that the richest Americans today are richer than the richest Americans of the past is because of globalization (scale to use one’s talents) and technology.
I pushed the idea that creditor bailouts let Wall Street execs use more leverage and enhance their pay. He didn’t like the idea much. We have a nice back and forth towards the end.
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