El error de percepción de pertenencia a clase social está muy extendido, no sólo en México sino en la mayoría de los paises occidentales. […] Muchos mexicanos creen ser de clase media. La mayoría se equivoca. El malentendido impide solucionar los problemas más apremiantes del país y perpetúa políticas que solo benefician a las élites.[…] nytimes.com | No, no eres clase media
El crecimiento de la clase media de los paises emergentes se ha producido a costa del estancamiento del crecimiento de la clase media en los paises desarrollados. […] In a short column last January on the most important economic chart of the year, Paul Krugman chose what has been dubbed the “elephant curve.” Drawn from a paper by Branko Milanović and Christoph Lakner, and explored at length in Milanović’s new book Global Inequality, it portrays large income gains for the global middle class between 1988 and 2011 alongside stagnant incomes for the middle class in rich countries—and, as we all know by now, huge gains for the global top 1 percent. […] Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor? | Boston Review Marshall SteinbaumMay 11, 2016 Marshall SteinbaumMural by Banksy, Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph: Chris Devers In a short column last January on the… bostonreview.net
Increible la demagogia de McCloskey. Y, lamentablemente, los políticos en el poder siguen esta linea. Pay pressure – FT.com The middle class in rich countries is living in the age of the stagnant wage. While precise measurements are difficult and disputed, there is no doubt that incomes for ordinary families in the US, Japan and across Europe barely increased faster than… ft.com