By Daniel Ford, Economics (2021)
A recent piece of research by Cinar Baymul, using the estimated market value of the players owned by each team, has revealed that inequality in the Premier League is on a par with that of Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe. Figure 1 corroborates this conclusion as it shows that between 2004 and 2017 the Gini coefficient for the league was around 0.45; in comparison the same figure for Zimbabwe was 0.43 in 2011 (CIA, 2018).
