Great Gatsby curve

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

and introduced by Alan Krueger in a 2012 speech, in allusion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.

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