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Introduction: Measuring Matters

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Paidipaty, Poornima 

Abstract

In September 2011, protesters occupied a park in New York’s financial district. The Occupy Wall Street movement, spreading over many cities and several countries over that winter, made inequality its banner and did much to bring the issue to the foreground of public debate. Through a sophisticated combination of age-old protest tactics and social media use, Occupy denounced the injustice of the accumulation of riches and power by a small and unaccountable elite. In that sense, the object of the protests was not novel, but the way it was framed—the 99 versus the 1 percent— was (Gould-Wartofsky 2015; Ramos Pinto 2019).

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Inequality, History of Economics, History of Measurement

Journal Title

History of Political Economy

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Journal ISSN

0018-2702
1527-1919

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Publisher

Duke University Press

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J001600/2)
Isaac Newton Trust (17.24(d))
Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme. Joint Centre for History & Economics, Cambridge and Harvard Ellen McArthur Fund, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Cambridge University Humanties Research Grants Economic History Society