Economists have long studied the economics of superstars in fields where a company can lever enormously the decisions of a small number of individuals, making them valuable in a way that someone who can, say, chop down trees like the legendary Paul Bunyan, is not. But the political economy of what levels of income differences countries will tolerate remains uncharted territory.
经济学家们一直都在研究那些经济界巨子，在某些领域中一个企业可以将一小批人的决策极度放大，并使之取得一种即便是传说中的伐木巨人保罗·班扬（Paul Bunyan）这样的个体都无法实现的价值。但对各国究竟可以容忍何种程度的收入差距的政治经济学研究却依然是一片空白。