This rejoinder responds to the Comment by Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme on my article that was recently published in this journal. The acrimonious tone of their Comment is regrettable, and its content reveals a worldview according to which issues such as income inequality and its causal relation to social contention are ‘technical’ in nature and reserved for debate only among ‘apolitical’ econometricians. Beyond that, Hlasny and Verme's Comment adds precious little by way of new argument to the discussion.

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关于“阿拉伯不平等之谜”：反驳

此反驳回应了 Vladimir Hlasny 和 Paolo Verme 对我最近发表在本期刊上的文章的评论。他们评论的尖刻语气令人遗憾，其内容揭示了一种世界观，根据这种世界观，收入不平等及其与社会争论的因果关系等问题本质上是“技术性的”，仅供“非政治”计量经济学者讨论。除此之外，Hlasny 和 Verme 的评论几乎没有为讨论增加新的论据。