This paper recounts the evolution of the Korean keyboard as a case in which the disadvantages of the inherited standard turn into a nonissue with the advancement of auxiliary technologies. The persistence of an inherited standard, when a superior alternative is available, is usually regarded as...

This paper evaluates the validity of the thesis of 'the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer' (RGR) and finds it wanting. Its implication of increasing polarization of income and wealth distribution is not borne out by observation. There is too much mobility across income strata to be...