Inequality in Historical Perspective

income inequality, classical economists, United Nations

Global Goals – the UN experience

human development, millennium development goals, mdgs

Revenue Sharing and Player Salaries in Major League Baseball

This article analyzes how changes made to the revenue sharing agreement in the 2007 Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement influenced the salaries of position players and pitchers. The tax rates associated with revenue sharing decreased following ratification of the 2007 agreement. Theoretically, these changes should increase players’ marginal revenue product and, therefore, salaries. Results indicate that position players experienced an increase in salary following the 2007 agreement. Pitchers’ salaries also increased, but by a smaller amount. The effect of the 2007 agreement was different throughout the salary distribution for position players, but uniform throughout the distribution for pitchers

The MDGs in Historical Perspective

Some 50 goals have been set over the UN's life, from goals for education in 1960 to the MDGs agreed at the Millennium Summit in New York in 2000. Cynics have charged that UN goals have been proposed and agreed with little thought, and rarely achieved. Based on research conducted for the UN Intellectual History Project, this short article argues that in fact, there has always been widespread discussion before approving goals and more progress in implementing them than is commonly recognised. And although the record of achievement is mixed and far from perfect, most of the goals have had considerable influence and many have been considerably achieved by a considerable number of countries

From Speeches to Action: Implementing What is Agreed

Summary Summary Stabilisation policy and practice were initially abstracted from what were seen as transitional costs and from their impact on poor and vulnerable people. In terms of policy pronouncements there has been dramatic change since 1985. Under various titles, ‘Adjustment With A Human Face’ and the ‘human dimension’ of economic recovery are now almost universally accepted in conceptual terms. But practice — as measured both by the type of priority data sought and used and by resource allocations — lags well behind. The present challenge is to articulate these concepts in concrete cases and to achieve resource allocations adequate to act upon them. Resumé Resumé Des Discours à l'Action: Mettre en Place ce qui a été Convenu La théorie et la pratique de la stabilisation ont été tirées à l'origine de ce qui était considéré comme étant les coûts transitoires et leur impacte sur les individus pauvres et vulnérables. En ce qui concerne les déclarations des prises de mesures, il y a eu un changement radical depuis 1985. Sous différents entêtes, ‘Ajustement à Visage Humain’ et la 'dimension humaine' du redressement économique sont maintenant pratiquement universellement adoptés en tant que termes conceptuels. Mais la pratique — comme elle a été mesurée à la fois par le type de données recherchées et utilisées, et par les allocations de resource — est restée en arrière. Le défi actuel c'est d'exprimer ces conceptes dans des cas concrets et de mener à bien les allocations adéquates de resources afin de les exécute

The New International Economic Order— what's in it for the rich?

SUMMARY Improvement of the international economic order must come from negotiations, not shotgun demands. These are areas of shared interest between the developing and the industrialised countries. The current recession involves enormous loss of potential production to the industrial world, a part of which can be attributed to the disruption caused by lack of preparation for and suddeness of an un ?negotiated shift of potential spending power to the OPEC countries of a mere 2 per cent of world GNP. Timely concessions are worth making to avoid such disruptions, It is in the rich countries' interest to find a pattern of production in harmony with the needs of the developing world for a fairer share of world income. RESUMEN EI Nuevo Orden Económico Internacional—qué pueden ganar los ricos El mejoramiento del orden económico internacional debe provenir de negociaciones, no de exigencias violentas. Existen áreas de interés común entre los palses en desarrollo y los industrializados. La recesión actual implica enormes pérdidas de producción potencial para el mundo industrial, parte de las cuales pueden atribuirse a la dislocación producida por una transferencia no negociada de capacidad potencial de gasto de no más de un dos por ciento del PNB mundial en favor de los paises de la OPE P. Vale la pena hacer concesiones a tiempo para evitar tales dislocaciones. Encontrar un padrón de producción de acuerdo a las necesidades de los paises en desarrollo de obtener una parte más justa del ingreso mundial es también materia de interés para los paises ricos. RESUME Le nouvel ordre économique international—que rapporte?t?il aux riches? L'amélioration de l'ordre économique international ne saurait se réaliser que par négociation—et non par revendications militantes. Que les nations industrialisées et pays en développement aient des intérêts communs est incontestable. Le ralentissement économique se traduit pour le monde industrialisé en perte énorme de capacité productive, attribuable en partie aux bouleversements occasionnés par le virement, non ?negocié, vers des pays de l'OPEP d'un pouvoir d'achat ne moyennant que de 2 p.100 du PNB mondial. Mieux vaut faire des concessions opportunes que de provoquer de tels bouleversements. Les pays riches ont intérêt à élaborer un modèle de production qui puisse assurer au monde en développement une plus équitable répartition des revenus mondiaux