Free Market
Author:
T. Norman Van Cott
Online Publish Date:
The Free Market 21, no. 1 (January 2003) As details of the 2000 Census emerge, commentators across the country are spinning “somebody done somebody wrong” economics to describe the US economy in the 1990s. Their recurring theme is that rich Americans got richer because poor Americans got poorer. Some put a racial/ethnic slant on the theme.