Economists frequently dismiss diminishing marginal utility (dimmeu) of wealth for ethical and political concerns, but it is hard to avoid the concept when you start looking at the world. For example, the poorest people cannot afford to pay people to…
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- M1. What is Median Expected Lifetime Income (MELI)?
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- M5. Why doesn’t anyone care about existing measures of median income?
- M6. Why hasn’t anyone adjusted median income statistics to make them more useful?
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