Mobility is not relevant to inequality. It merely refers to the movement of individuals from one category to another, leaving the categories unchanged.
At one time an 8th-grade education was more than enough for an individual to "move up"; but the number of people up and the number of people down remained the same. The topic is the ratio of the "top groups" to the "lowest groups," not whether individuals shuffle around. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:40 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] NYT column on Piketty book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" On Mar 26, 2014, at 10:36 PM, "Perelman, Michael" <[email protected]> wrote: > The education question is a conundrum. Education is almost a requirement for social mobility But if 'mobility' is the answer -- what was the question, again? Michael Smith [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
