They have called it "the most influential graph of the last decade" and it is enormously popular with economists, sociologists, and political scientists: "The Elephant Graph" was published in the book World Inequality (Ed. FCE, 2017) by economist Branko Milanovic, one of the most famous scholars of economic inequality. But now, the novelty is that "there is no more elephant", as Milanovic himself wrote on his Twitter account on July 5. "The Elephant Graph" represents the relative increase in real per capita income segmented by percentiles. The exaggerated increase in the incomes of the richest 1% made the drawing stop

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