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Capital and Ideology (2019) by Thomas Piketty
Capital and Ideology (2019) by Thomas Piketty:A synopsis of his concluding recommendations for reducing inequalityincluding related observations by Joseph Stiglitz and Anthony Atkinson REDUCING AND CONTROLLING INEQUALITY:Ways and MeansObstacles and OpportunitiesIn the Short Term and over the Long Term … Continue reading
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Galbraith’s Economics of Innocent Fraud
A Synopsis of J. K. Galbraith’s final book: The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for our Time Late in life, at the end of his long career as an economic advisor to governments, as a Professor of … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate power over government policy, corporations (advantages granted to), corporations (management power in), corporations (myths pertaining to), economic behaviour (unpredictability of), economics (use of language in), GDP (a flawed economic metric), inequality (increased by economic theory), political economy, power (dangerous levels of), wealth (extremes of)
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Joseph Stiglitz (2012) The Price of Inequality
A Synopsis of the book: The Price of Inequality (2012) by Joseph Stiglitz INCREASES IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTABILITY: THEIR LINKS TO INEQUALITY In 1887 England’s Lord Acton wrote: “power tends to … Continue reading
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The Spirit Level and its Critics
“THE SPIRIT LEVEL” AND ITS CRITICS Extremes of financial inequality, their possible sources and their potential dangers, have lately become the focus of an increasing number of books and articles. This has been particularly true since the western financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Beware False Prophets (book), inequality (financial), inequality (measures of), inequality (social/educational), Kate Pickett, Peter Saunders, Policy Exchange (U.K.), Richard Wilkinson, significance (statistical), Statistics (Inferential), The Spirit Level (book), theories (exceptions and counter-examples to)
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Wilkinson & Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level
A Synopsis of the book: The Spirit Level (2009) by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett INEQUALITY: THE PRIME SUSPECT … Continue reading
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McQuaig & Brooks (2010) The Trouble With Billionaires
A Synopsis of the book: The Trouble With Billionaires by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (2010) SOCIETIES IN AND OUT OF BALANCE: EFFECTIVE SHARING OF WEALTH AND POWER A careful balance between private and public access to “property” … Continue reading
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L. Kohr (1957) The Breakdown of Nations
A Synopsis Of Leopold Kohr’s Book The Breakdown of Nations (1957) WHY SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, NATURAL, IMPERATIVE, AND GENERALLY UNOBTAINABLE Every human life has its seasons. And so does every human society, organization, and culture. There are times … Continue reading
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Tagged balance/equilibrium, democracy (facilitation of), diversity (importance of), economics (sustainable), growth (excessive), growth cycles, law of diminishing effect, Leopold Kohr, nations (sustainable), necessities & luxuries, organizations (sustainable), peace (facilitation of), political economy, power (abuse of), power (dangerous levels of), productivity (optimizing), quality of life (facilitation of), redundancies (importance of), size (optimizing), Small is Beautiful, temptation (human susceptibility to), The Breakdown of Nations, theories (exceptions and counter-examples to), theory of size, United Nations (weaknesses of), war (causes of)
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