Despite Judge's highly personal focus, mine is far from being the only evidence of an association between national mortality rates and income distribution. The criticisms that Judge directs at two of my five demonstrations of the relation would therefore, even if they had been accurate, leave the bulk of the evidence unscathed. As well as summarising the evidence which Judge ignores, I shall also show why we should not be surprised at a relation between mortality and income distribution, and then deal with methodological problems that he inadvertently raises.
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