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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate in economics, has teamed up with New York Major Bill De Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren to propose a major economic reform agenda for the US. Its focus: Reducing inequality. 
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The study of inequality has been going on forever. To give you an idea, the index used to measure how unequal the distribution of income is -- the "Gini Coefficient" -- was invented a century ago. So, why the sudden interest?
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Over the next year the main arena for discussion and debate on anti-corporate politics will be within and around Sanders campaign.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in a HuffPost Live conversation Wednesday said that young Americans face a lack of opportunity -- unless they come from a privileged background, that is.
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J Stiglitz (1) "The Price of Inequality How Today´s Divided Society Endangers our Future" [Full EpisJ Stiglitz (1) "The Price of Inequality How Today´s Divided Society Endangers our Future" J Stiglitz (1) "The Price of Inequality How Today´s Divided Society ...
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Money is speech and dollars have more influence than people. It's time to be honest about the plutocracy we live in.
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Wealthy tech founders and the automation of middle-class jobs are often blamed for increasingly concentrations of wealth…
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Globalization and technology have gutted the labor movement, and part-time work is sabotaging solidarity. Is there a new way to challenge the politics of inequality?
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RT @TheWealthER: Even the rich think the middle class is getting screwed http://t.co/KRz9JxTefU http://t.co/xmx6SyjD1F
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How Globalization Begets Inequality Harvard Magazine Maskin and Kremer began working out their theory of “skills matching” while studying developed countries like Britain and France in the early 1990s, but they soon realized that their model helped...
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Reversing inequality does not mean hindering economic growth, says new research
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According to economist Lance Taylor and his colleagues, we're not yet talking about the kinds of major changes needed to keep us from becoming a Downton Abbey society....
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A lack of basic fairness in our economic system is threatening democracy, capitalism and civil society, argues Will Hutton in an extract from his new book, How Good We Can Be
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Political-economic systems throughout the world are built on deeply rooted and long-established systems of privilege for the well-connected.
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Do you live in a country that has missed out on billions of dollars in revenue?
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The "Inequality Boom" is what social scientist Sheldon Danziger, President of the Russell Sage Foundation here in New York, uses to describe the current condition of 100 million Americans -- if the cost of housing, transportation and healthcare...
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If you’ve been to Bilderberg, chances are you’re a fan of austerity: promoting it, demanding it, implementing it and profiting from it.
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Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on our country's brutal class war -- and why it's ultimately so one-sided
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America's emphasis on liberty has created an "empathy gap" among the wealthy.
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Occupy Wall Street protesters may want to add a decimal point to their signs. In its messy post-crisis birth, the movement made the wealthiest one percent of th
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How do we bring fundamental reforms about at a time when organized minorities and disorganized, quiescent majorities appear to be the norm in both the North and the South?
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How do we bring fundamental reforms about at a time when organized minorities and disorganized, quiescent majorities appear to be the norm in both the North and the South?
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“America Has No Higher Rate of Social Mobility than Medieval England”By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com“Rags to Riches” No Longe from DarkPolitricks
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