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Showing posts with label class power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class power. Show all posts
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Thomas Piketty — Europe and the class cleavage

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In all the referendums for the last 25 years the working classes have systematically expressed their disagreement with the Europe presented...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Daniel Margrain — Class Matters

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The prevailing orthodoxy in terms of class identification over the last few decades has been through the nexus of lifestyle choices and job...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Raúl Ilargi Meijer — Austerity, Bloodletting and Incompetence

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Punxsutawney Phil Hammond, the UK chancellor, presented his Budget yesterday and declared five more years of austerity for Britain. As was ...
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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Eric Zuesse — What America’s Aristocracy Want

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The American aristocracy want inequality of rights, with two basic polar-opposite classes: the ‘elite’, with themselves at the top of every...
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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Glenn Greenwald — Brazil’s Corrupt Congress Protects its Bribe-Drenched President, Finalizing Elites’ Two-Year Plot

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Just imagine the most extreme, primitive cartoon version of a gleefully hypocritical moralizer – a preacher who leaves his weekly whorehous...
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Cameron K. Murray — Economic bandits

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In the US, the expression "game of mates" is "old boy network." The traditional concept of class pretty much signifie...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Lars P. Syll — Marx and the Matthew effect

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If you are unfamiliar with  the Matthew effect (Wikipedia). Lars P. Syll’s Blog Marx and the Matthew effect Lars P. Syll | Profess...
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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Cameron K. Murray — Game Of Mates: Nepotism Is Costing The Economy Billions

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"Old boy" networks more than nepotism. This is integral to class structure and class power. It's not just economics but also...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Robert Paul Wolff — The Connection Between Expropriation and Exploitations, Part Two

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… “Clearly,” I said to myself, “workers in a capitalist economy are getting the short end of the stick, but Marx’s explanation, invoking th...
Monday, May 23, 2016

David F. Ruccio — Markets, power, and the distribution of income

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Joseph Stiglitz usefully explains that there’s more than one theory of the distribution of income. One theory, he writes, focuses on compe...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Brad DeLong — Must-Read: Miriam Ronzoni: Where Are the Power Relations in Piketty’s Capital?

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The extremely-sharp Miriam Ronzoni excellently puts her finger on a substantial hole in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Centur...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

David F. Ruccio — What’s class got to do with it?

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The other day , I recommended the first two installments in the TPM series on “the road to inequality”—albeit with the caution that there w...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Ann Pettifor — “What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren?”

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The relevance of Keynes today and the peril of continuing to ignore him. Debtonation “What are the economic possibilities for our grandchi...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Erik Loomis — A Glimpse Into the Black, Shriveled Hearts of the Republican Class Warriors

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Brad DeLong says this is a must-read. I agree. Bonus: It's short. Sharpen the pitchforks. Lawyers, Guns & Money A Glimpse Int...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Pavlina R. Tcherneva — When A Rising Tide Sinks Most Boats: Trends In Us Income Inequality

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In the postwar period, with every subsequent expansion, a smaller and smaller share of the gains in income growth have gone to the bottom 9...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Keane Bhatt — Progressive Policies Are Popular - So Why Should Democrats Be Afraid of Them?

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A HuffPost/YouGov poll ( 6/20/13 ) found that 74 percent of the US public supports requiring companies to offer paid sick leave to their em...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh — Class Interests as Economic Theory

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Succinct explanation of the transition from classical to neoclassical economics and marginalism. The formal theoretical shift from classic...
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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Jon D. Wisman — “Government Is Whose Problem?”

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Abstract: This article addresses the political meaning of President Ronald Reagan's 1981 declaration that "government is the probl...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Peter Radford — Business schools and inequality [HBS smackdown]

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Peter Radford smacks down his alma mater, Harvard Business School, as perverted. Harsh. Managerial capitalism at its worst. The good new is...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Chris Dillow — Leftist Tories?

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As James O'Connor wrote: "The capitalistic state must try to fulfill two basic and often contradictory functions - accumulation ...