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They studied 18 years of US data and then make statments like:

_It suggests that any kind of policy will be very inefficient," says Yakovenko. It would be very difficult to impose a policy to redistribute wealth "short of getting Stalin", says Yakovenko, who will talk in Kolkata next week._

As if the research wasn't abstract enough, this level of generalization and political inference makes him sounds like a crackpot.

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