It applies two new concepts: the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio. They compare the observed income inequality to the maximum feasible inequality that, at a given level of income, might have been Ôextracted' by those in power. The results give new insights into the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run.
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