Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I wasn't being puritannical and Lear was just another big male baby
who failed to see that we must "endure our going forth, even as our
coming hither." -- brutal but true...

Joanna


Carrol Cox wrote:

> Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > joanna bujes wrote:
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> > > Are there other numbers to tell us how much of this is comsumption to
> > > physically survive?
> > There was a Fed study published in 2001
> > <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2001/200121/200121abs.html>
> > that argued that it was mostly driven by the upper quintile of the
> > distribution, flush from stock market gains (either financially or
> > psychologically).
> >
> > Doug
>
>     O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
>     Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
>     Allow not nature more than nature needs,
>     Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;
>     If only to go warm were gorgeous,
>     Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
>     Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--
>                King Lear