Do we have statistics of historical income inequality in Maoist China (1949-1976), preferably represented in gini coefficients?

Dear all,

I am writing a diploma thesis on the change in monetary policy transmission during recessions using a DSGE model.

I would like to conclude it with an apt quote. I was thinking G. Box's "All models are wrong, some are useful". Is there anything better?

Thanks for any tips!

Sorry if this isn't the right sub for this, and I have very little knowledge of economics so please explain anything to me like I'm five. I'm studying Reagan and can't find anything about the difference between supply-side economics and trickle-down. Are there any major differences between the two, or is one just a rebranding of the other?

https://weiterzugehen.net/2021/05/26/book-review-the-box-by-marc-levinson/

Levinson details the machinations of port employers, unions and shipping companies. It is a story of men with egos – union leaders in New York and New Jersey on the east coast, and their counterparts on the west coast (LA and San Francisco). It is a tale of rejecting mechanisation and fraught negotiations (and strikes) over how many men not only each ship needed to be unloaded, but how many men per hatch. There’s a huge cast of sometimes unsavoury characters to keep track of. It is a story of demarcation – labourers vs crane drivers – and the difference between negotiating to get the best compensation for members’ job losses and negotiating to keep all men in work (on the west coast, the union negotiated a compensation scheme that enabled many men to retire, which was a most welcome opportunity after a life of hard dock labour). It’s a story of competitive politics resulting in public investment in NY Harbor’s piers and creaking and congested supporting infrastructure by politicians trying to maintain their own privilege but failing to see that the future was different and the investment was misplaced

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I would like to get some recommendations you've done.

Last year, I read his shorty story(or novella), OF MICE AND MEN while he discussed many themes, like, explores complex themes of friendship, loneliness, and the pursuit of the American Dream in 1920s. But the thing is, how do you think the way he narrated the great depression of America, through the characters? I will read The grapes of wrath, which quite good and will show you how great he was