Great Gatsby curve

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Etymology

Coined by American economist Judd Cramer and introduced by Alan Krueger in a speech in 2012, in allusion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925).

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Noun

Great Gatsby curve (plural Great Gatsby curves)

  1. (economics) A chart plotting the relationship between inequality and intergenerational social immobility in several countries around the world.

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