What Dr. Dre Can Teach Us About Income Inequality

Andre Young, the producer, performer, and businessman known by the stage name Dr. Dre, took a commanding lead in the Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid musicians of 2014. With earnings of $620 million, he had a more than five-fold lead on the second-place musician, Beyoncé Knowles. In fact, by the Forbes data, he earned more than the next seven members of the list combined. We can think of this as a sort of income inequality story. Is Dr. Dre really doing that much better than his peers ...