Putting USA inequality on the map

from David Ruccio

Mainstream economists treat the United States of America (like other countries) as a single entity, as if everyone were equal or had an equal stake in the outcome. They do it when they measure national wealth (via Gross Domestic Product) and wealth per capita (by dividing GDP by the population), when they measure the “gains from trade” (where all nations benefit from free trade based on relative advantages), when they discuss macroeconomic policy (as if all gain from price stability or balance of payments equilibrium), and so on.

The fact is, inequalities in the United States are so glaring right now that they’re finally being put on the map. And, when they are (as in the screen shots of the two interactive maps above [ht: mg], based on measuring median incomes by county), we have to ask the question, can we really talk in any reasonable way about the united states of America? 

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