Comments on: Last 2,000 years of growth in world income and population (REVISED) http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/ Making the "Invisible Hand" Visible Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:23:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Siddhartha http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-21274 Siddhartha Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:22:09 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-21274 To Daniel: This shows no evidence for disproving that the poor are getting poorer. Averages can always be driven up by extreme cases. Like Swartz asked for, you need median income, or quartiles to be able to judge distribution. Very interesting graph. Look at the jump around 1800. And around 1500 when the New World was discovered. To Daniel: This shows no evidence for disproving that the poor are getting poorer. Averages can always be driven up by extreme cases. Like Swartz asked for, you need median income, or quartiles to be able to judge distribution.

Very interesting graph. Look at the jump around 1800. And around 1500 when the New World was discovered.

]]> By: Sam http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-19725 Sam Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:01:30 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-19725 Also I have a message to all people visiting this very URL: Your really cool Also I have a message to all people visiting this very URL:

Your really cool

]]> By: Fred Swartz http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-11360 Fred Swartz Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:11:45 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-11360 Very interesting -- thanks for the graph. How the GDP is distributed in the population would be interesting, eg, the median income. Very interesting — thanks for the graph. How the GDP is distributed in the population would be interesting, eg, the median income.

]]> By: daniel http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-9483 daniel Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:52:21 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/11/21/last-2000-of-growth-in-world-income-and-population-revised/#comment-9483 This makes it very easy to see how incomes have been soaring over the last 300 years or so, and shows as so much bunk all the gainsayers' comments about the poor getting poorer. This makes it very easy to see how incomes have been soaring over the last 300 years or so, and shows as so much bunk all the gainsayers’ comments about the poor getting poorer.

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