The First Egalitarian Enrichment: Economic Growth and Inequality in America, 1870 to 1945

Discusses how US growth interacted with inequality from post–Civil War to WWII.

InequalityEconomic growthPodcast episodeamerican historygrowth vs distributionincome inequalityindustrializationlabor marketsproductivityVincent GelosoJohn TaylorJohn CochraneMichael Boskin

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• Hoover Institution · 2025-02-04

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