(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979).
The consensus, advanced most powerfully
David Autor, “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market,” Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project, April 2010.
In a January 2012 speech about income inequality
Alan B. Krueger, “The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States,” remarks prepared for an event at the Center for American Progress, January 12, 2012.
But the best explanation
See Noam Scheiber, “The Audacity of Data: Barack Obama’s Surprisingly Non-Ideological Policy Shop,”
, March 12, 2008.
“Above all, Obama’s form of pragmatism”
Cass Sunstein, “The Empiricist Strikes Back: Obama’s Pragmatism Explained,”
, September 10, 2008.
Word crunchers found that the president’s 2009 inaugural address
Justin Wolfers, “The Empiricist-in-Chief,”
blog, February 26, 2009.
Elizabeth Billington was a diva
See Elizabeth Billington’s entry in Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans,
(SIU Press, 1993), pp. 122–29.
“The relative fall in the incomes to be earned”
Marshall,
, Book VI, Chapter XII, Section 11.
China’s Ming Dynasty, which ruled the Middle Kingdom
Patricia Buckley Ebrey,
(Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 201.
“A striking instance is that of writing”
Marshall,
, Book VI, Chapter XII, Section 9.
“The number of persons who can be reached”
Ibid., Section 11.
“Even adjusted for 1981 prices”
Sherwin Rosen, “The Economics of Superstars,”
71:5 (December 1981), p. 857.
In 1900, nearly all spectator entertainment
Gerben Bakker, “Time and Productivity Growth in Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment,” LSE working paper 119/09, March 2009, p. 7 and table B1. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27866/1/WP119.pdf.
$670,000 to produce
Ted Okuda and David Maska,
(iUniverse, 2005).
In 1859, Anthony Trollope
Francis Evans Baily,
(Kennikat Press, 1969).
“an entirely new economic model”
Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail,”
, October 2004.
“I’m a pilot, so I understand airplane economics”
CF interview with Eric Schmidt, February 23, 2011.
median salary for American lawyers
William D. Henderson, “Three Generations of U.S. Lawyers: Generalists, Specialists, Project Managers,”
, vol. 70, no. 1, 2011.
In 2011, a year when top partner paydays
See Nathan Koppel and Vanessa O’Connell, “Pay Gap Widens at Big Law Firms as Partners Chase Star Attorneys,”
, February 8, 2011; and Vanessa O’Connell, “Big Law’s $1,000-Plus an Hour Club,”
, February 23, 2011.
David Boies’s hourly rate
Vanessa O’Connell, “With Oracle and Dodgers Waiting, Boies Not Ready to Retire,”
, August 1, 2011.
average starting salary for a law school graduate
See the National Association of Law Placement’s Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2010. http://www.nalp.org/uploads/Classof2010SelectedFindings.pdf.
average lawyer earned
May 2011 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes231011.htm.
The most advanced example of this trend is e-discovery
See John Markoff, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software,”
, March 4, 2011.
(Meanwhile, DLA Piper, one of the law firms)
See Nathan Koppel and Vanessa O’Connell. “Pay Gap Widens at Big Law Firms as Partners Chase Star Attorneys,”
, February 8, 2011.
In the age of the global super-elite, even dentists
Joan Juliet Buck, “Drill, Bebe, Drill,”
, August 10, 2011.
Her 2011 single “Born This Way”
Dorothy Pomerantz, “Lady Gaga Tops Celebrity 100 List,”
, May 18, 2011; “The Celebrity 100,”
