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DeSTRESS Film 6: Introducing averages

Introducing averages: the Distribution of Wealth (15'55")
This film discusses the distribution of wealth, and the relation between wealth and happiness. It distinguishes three kinds of "average"; the mean, mode and median.

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Interviewees:

  • Gary Becker: Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Nobel laureate
  • Jesper Roine: Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm School of Economics

The DeSTRESS films are presented by Ken Heather of the University of Portsmouth and produced by StreamLearn LLC. Published online in 2011

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