--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hell no. We were talking about that issue in my > seminar on American identity years ago. Easterbrook > is way behind the curve on this issue. I think I > first read the argument 5-6 years ago, and I know Paul > Samuelson had articles about it in the mainstream > press at least 2-3 years ago.
Raises hand! I know that as long as I've been on Brin-L, in previous discussions of inequality I have suggested that surely the enormously large wave of immigration being experienced by the United States is having some effect on heighting inequality statistics. So to second Gautam's point, Gregg Easterbrook is hardly the first person to develop this theory - but he certainly has moved it much further into the mainstream. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
