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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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Tagged "fairness" (perceptions of), Anthony Atkinson, Capital and Ideology (book), Controlling inequality, corporations (advantages granted to), democracy (erosions of), democracy (facilitation of), economics (sustainable), education (access to), educational justice, enough (recognition of), enough (sharing of), health (societal), health services (access to), Ideology (national), inequality (financial), inequality (of opportunity), inequality (social/educational), Inequality: What Can Be Done (book), Joseph E. Stiglitz, justice (access to), Participatory Socialism, political economy, Reducing inequality, Social and Economic Council (National), taxation (progressive rates of), technology (unemployment from), The Price of Inequality (book), Thomas Piketty, trust (social), Universal basic income, Universal capital endowment, wealth (extremes of), wealth (redistribution of)
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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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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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