Friday, March 23, 2012

Economics of the Hunger Games

here, via Greg Mankiw.

A non-fictional excerpt:
If you plot per capita income in the Americas today, you see a clear pattern with the United States and Canada ahead, the southern cone around Chile and Argentina in second place, and the middle portion much poorer. It turns out that if you turn the clock back about 500 years, the pattern was reversed. The places that are rich today were poor then, while those that are poor today were generally rich in the past.

I predict I will be in the theaters with my 11-year-old in the next couple of weeks.

Photo link here.

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