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Piketty and his Rockstar Solutions Part 2
Spreading the wealth tax word. And that time that I lost my wallet in Soweto.
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Wealth Inequality, Thomas Piketty and Land Reform
I paraphrased Piketty's return to 'patrimonial capitalism'. It's more interesting than it sounds #nerd
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Global Warming: It’s Not The Cows, It’s The Middle Class!
How the rise of the middle class has led to global warming.
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Global Wealth Inequality: The Hubbub [repost]
Some angering statistics. And a youtube clip that everyone should see.
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Is Inequality a Good Thing? Arguments from the other side.
It’s December – and it’s that time of the year when a few things start to happen: People start going on holiday, making readership numbers drop off. I run out of blog topics because I also want to go on holiday. Or when I have a great blog idea, I start wondering whether I should save […]
read moreThe Book That All The Economists Are Reading: Das Kapital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty is a French economist at the Paris School of Economics, and his book Le Capital au XXIe siècle has been freshly released in English as “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. People are referring to it as Karl Marx: the sequel. And as for Paul Krugman (not exactly famous for his praise): “Piketty has written a […]
read moreWelfare and Entitlements
I’m afraid that I’m away again for a few days – away from reasonable internet, specifically. So I have a few scheduled posts coming up of video infographics that I’ve found especially awesome. I’m starting with this magnificent video clip on welfare and entitlement. Just magnificent*. *my email subscribers probably won’t be able to watch this […]
read moreThe War On The 1% #Kristallnacht
Has anyone heard of Thomas Perkins? Me neither. At least, not until he wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal, where he said this: Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, […]
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