Great Gatsby economics are no party for the middle class

Washington Post | Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:52:03 -0700

Krueger, who has a gift for popularizing economic concepts, has invented the Great Gatsby Curve,” which measures income mobility across generations. It turns out that the United States has far less “intergenerational earnings elasticity,” to use the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Is Being Rewritten by Its Characters

Huffington Post | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:46:37 -0700

A new memoir has begun in the Believer magazine, with the first installment just published. It's by Robert Atwan, writing as "Thomas Buchanan." Yes, that Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, Nick's Yale frenemy, Gatsby's nemesis. Pearl-buyer, nose-breaker, ...

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'The Great Gatsby Comes to Queens Again,' Declares Architect

Curbed NY | Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:31:13 -0700

The Aston, a 16-story condo building set to rise on Queens Boulevard is being described as "The Great Gatsby comes to Queens again in a modern version," by its architect, Anthony Morali, and the similarities do abound. For one thing, Gatsby lived in a ...

Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby a hit with the locals, old sport

The Australian | Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:10:54 -0700

The Great Gatsby earned another $2.7 million to bring its Australian total to $19.2m, meaning the film is likely to fall well short of Luhrmann's most popular film in this country, Australia, which earned $37.5m in 2008-09. Nevertheless, it's a mighty ...

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