Re: Re: Re: Re: reparations

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Child mortality is a case in point.  For example, even in the prosperous
> United States, child mortality is extraordinarily high in places, such as
> Harlem -- higher than in Bangladesh.  It is very low in prosperous areas.
>
> My basic question, Brad, relates to this use of averages without an taking
> into account the inequalities that they obscure.

But infant mortality is a lot lower now than it was a century ago,
right? Both because (as Jim Devine correctly points out) of
governments doing a much better job with public health, and because
of improvements in material standards of living, right?


Brad DeLong