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The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become by Dalton Conley
epub |eng | 2009-02-20 | Author:Dalton Conley [Conley, Dalton]

Conclusion So what is the ultimate role of “luck”—i.e., outside influences? Though Christopher Jencks does cite luck as important in explaining the non-family portion of socioeconomic differences, he also admits ...
( Category: Siblings February 29,2020 )
America besieged by Michael Parenti
epub |eng | 1998-02-27 | Author:Michael Parenti

A DANGEROUS STATE THE NATIONAL INSECURITY STATE Within the government there exists what some have called "the national security state." It consists of the president, the secretaries of State and ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 28,2020 )
Why Redistribution Fails by James Piereson
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:James Piereson [Piereson, James]

With regard to providing aid to the poor, Americans have built a social-service state but not a redistribution state. The poor are eligible to receive a bevy of in-kind benefits ...
( Category: Macroeconomics February 18,2020 )
Agenda for a New Economy by David C Korten
epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:David C Korten [Korten, David C]

Collective Choices The existing economic system did not arise as the result of some immutable natural force. It was created by a small clique of corporate power brokers and free ...
( Category: Theory February 16,2020 )
What Comes After Money by Daniel Pinchbeck
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Daniel Pinchbeck [Pinchbeck, Daniel]

14 AN ARMY OF JACKS TO FIGHT THE POWER PETER LAMBORN WILSON In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force—stone, egg, ring, ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy February 16,2020 )
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century by Torben Iversen & David Soskice
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Torben Iversen & David Soskice

4.4.4. FRANCE The deterioration of growth across the industrialized economies which gathered pace in the second half of the 1970s led to intense debates about the role of government, involving ...
( Category: Democracy January 19,2020 )
Happiness for All? by Graham Carol
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Graham, Carol [Graham, Carol]

Figure 4.3a. Future life satisfaction across race and income cohorts. Source: Author’s calculations, based on Gallup Healthways data, 2008–2013. Note: Average responses on a question that asks respondents to place ...
( Category: Microeconomics January 19,2020 )
Confronting Inequality by Jonathan D. Ostry
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Jonathan D. Ostry

FIGURE 8.1: Effect of Increased Robot Efficiency on Wages, Income, and Income Shares An increase in the efficiency of robots eventually raises wages—after twenty years—but lowers labor’s share of income. ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Branko Milanovic

Today, in what Baldwin identifies as the second unbundling (and the second globalization), all three main actors have changed. Now, the control and coordination of production is done “here,” but ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines January 19,2020 )
Censored 2020 by Mickey Huff & Mickey Huff
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:Mickey Huff & Mickey Huff

matthew crain is an assistant professor of media, journalism, and film at Miami University. His research is centered on the historical development and democratic implications of digital advertising and consumer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies November 24,2019 )
The Stakes by Robert Kuttner
epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Robert Kuttner

Corruption: A Brief History of an American Scourge There is a huge literature in political science on the breakdown of trust in large institutions as one key indicator of the ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 27,2019 )
The Triumph of Injustice by Emmanuel Saez
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Emmanuel Saez

WHY HAVE COUNTRIES FAILED SO FAR TO COORDINATE? To see how we could escape our current predicament, we must start by understanding why we have failed, so far, to address ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 15,2019 )
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Mehrsa Baradaran

The Free Market Confronts Black Poverty No sooner had the complicated, overdue, and incomplete racial turmoil of the civil rights era subsided than a rewriting of its history began. The ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 7,2019 )
Economics after Neoliberalism by Joshua Cohen
epub |eng | 2019-08-22 | Author:Joshua Cohen

OUR LAST GROUP of commentators offer a perspective from economic development and global inequality. While neoliberal economics may be obsolete in the advanced countries, some argue that its basic policy ...
( Category: Democracy October 2,2019 )
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice by Robert Pondiscio
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Robert Pondiscio

CHAPTER 16 Plan of Attack A sign has appeared on the double doors leading into the fourth-grade wing. In bold type, it warns that there are seventy-five days left until ...
( Category: Social Policy October 1,2019 )

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