The evolution of top incomes: An international comparison. ↑ Krugman, Paul, The Conscience of a Liberal, pp. 7–8, 47–52 ↑ Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, pp. 134, 138 ↑ introducing this blog (see graph), Paul Krugman ↑ The Great Divergence By Timothy Noah ↑ 2.7%/average annual growth of real income of typical family for the postwar boom, from 1947 to 1973; compared to 0.7%/annual income growth for the modern era of reasonable growth with rising inequality, from 1980 until the present. (The era of stagflation from 1973-1980 had no growth). Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, pp. 54–55)