English Explanatory Dictionary

Great Gatsby curve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Great Gatsby curve Great Gatsby curves

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).

Related words

Lorenz curve
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