On: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

[noaharc]

That's an extreme, but it's certainly common economic knowledge that income inequality -- in rich nations -- tends to promote economic growth. Of course, common knowledge is sometimes wrong, but I think it takes more than one article to disprove it.

One example of such common knowledge: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w26530m1x3163184/

[jackowayed → noaharc]

Well, this article isn't even refuting the "common knowledge." Economic growth != health and crime rate.