Tag Archives: economic inequality

Free Market Fundamentalism: Top Ten Failings

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

Like any fundamentalism, Free Market Fundamentalism is necessarily involved in a profound denial of many aspects of reality. What is worse for us all, is that since around 1980 we have been all involved in a massive experiment to see … Continue reading →

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The Rich, the Camel and the Eye of the Needle

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

I liked this piece from Susan Feiner in today’s Real World Economics, a great source of reality based economics that is trying to undo the Chicago School madness of recent decades. See http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/and-the-rich-get-richer/ A camel and a rich man walked into … Continue reading →

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Social Power and Morality by Michael Lewis via Dan Ariely

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

I like the work of Dan Ariely and also of Michael Lewis and so this story really appealed to me as it shows in a social psychology experiment how our self appointed elite feels entitled to simply take a disproportionate … Continue reading →

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The Chart that Scares the 1% the Most by Tyler Durden

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

I really liked this article and chart by Tyler Durden from Real World Economics at http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/the-chart-that-scares-the-1-the-most/ It shows the correlation between the economy and how many people have to be put in jail to keep a lid on things in … Continue reading →

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Time to Retake Politics from the One Percent of Both US Political Parties

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Another great post by Dean Baker on Real World Economics, asking some good questions about the 1%. See http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/time-to-retake-politics-from-the-one-percent-in-both-political-parties/ The country is still celebrating the inability of the supercommittee to cut Social Security and Medicare, but it is important to move … Continue reading →

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Occupy the Agenda

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Great piece by Nicholas Kristoff in today’s New York Times YOU have to wonder: Could Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chiefs around the country be secretly backing the Occupy Wall Street movement? Damon Winter/The New York Times The Occupy protests … Continue reading →

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Map of European Income Inequality

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

Differences in income inequality always fascinate me. I grew up in a society with a Gini Index of .25 (UK in the 1950s) and now live in one with a Gini Index of .46 (current USA compared with .38 in … Continue reading →

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