You're right about germany(the war hurt it really bad) but if we choose say the UK, sweden and the UK show similar GDP/PPP numbers. But it seems that sweden has much greater income equality than the uk according to [2].
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_%28...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...
You're right about germany(the war hurt it really bad) but if we choose say the UK, sweden and the UK show similar GDP/PPP numbers. But it seems that sweden has much greater income equality than the uk according to [2].
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_%28...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...