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p_romer OP t1_itwn418 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Poverty descriptions in old books that doesn't seem poor in today's property market by p_romer

>In Jane Austen's Persuasion

The economist Thomas Piketty actually used her literature as inspiration for some of his theories about inequality to conclude we see similar patterns take shape today as in the 1800-hundreds.

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