Twitter / stiglitzian: "Inequality Is Not Inevitable"
"Inequality Is Not Inevitable" by Joseph Stiglitz http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh http://amzn.to/Mul8oD
Twitter / stiglitzian: "The more inequality, the slower
"The more inequality, the slower the growth―a conclusion now endorsed even by the IMF." http://politi.co/1o6mNGe http://bit.ly/1iOYkGe (pdf)
Twitter / stiglitzian: "The richer you are, the more
"The richer you are, the more you are able to influence the political process & the economic decisions, & to rig it all in favor of the 1%."
Twitter / stiglitzian: "We can more aptly be described
"We can more aptly be described as having a political system with '$1, one vote' than 'one person, one vote.'" http://politi.co/1o6mNGe
Twitter / stiglitzian: Joseph Stiglitz's PhD thesis
Joseph Stiglitz's PhD thesis: "Studies in the Theory of Economic Growth and Income Distribution" (1966) http://bit.ly/TFGsSg
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Most disturbing is the
"Most disturbing is the realization that the American dream―that we are living in the land of opportunity―is a myth." http://politi.co/1o6mNGe
Twitter / stiglitzian: Stiglitz: "
Stiglitz: "[Trickle-down economics] just doesn’t work; the historical data now prove that." http://politi.co/1o6mNGe
Twitter / stiglitzian: "The cumulative loss of GDP
"The cumulative loss of GDP now amounts to more than $8 trillion, and is mounting at the rate of $2 trillion a year." http://politi.co/1o6mNGe
Twitter / stiglitzian: Get a copy of Thomas Piketty's
Get a copy of Thomas Piketty's "timely, important" & "justly celebrated" new book "Capital in the 21st Century" http://amzn.to/1m7WeSj
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Our current brand of capitalism
"Our current brand of capitalism is an ersatz capitalism ...where we socialized losses, even as we privatized gains." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Perfect competition should
"Perfect competition should drive profits to 0, @ least theoretically, but we have monopolies&oligopolies making persistently high profits."
Twitter / stiglitzian: "CEOs enjoy incomes that are
"CEOs enjoy incomes that are on average 295x that of the typical worker without any evidence of a proportionate increase in productivity."
Twitter / stiglitzian: "The true test of an economy
"The true test of an economy is not how much wealth its princes can accumulate in tax havens, but how well off the typical citizen is."
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Money that was meant to have
"Money that was meant to have trickled down has instead evaporated in the balmy climate of the Cayman Islands." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh
Twitter / stiglitzian: Stiglitz: "Justice has become
Stiglitz: "Justice has become a commodity, affordable to only a few." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh http://amzn.to/Mul8oD
Twitter / stiglitzian: Stiglitz: "We need not just
Stiglitz: "We need not just a new war on poverty but a war to protect the middle class." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh http://amzn.to/Mul8oD
Twitter / stiglitzian: Stiglitz: "We must end the
Stiglitz: "We must end the rent-seeking society we have gravitated toward, in which the wealthy obtain profits by manipulating the system."
Twitter / stiglitzian: Stiglitz: "We are not embracing
Stiglitz: "We are not embracing a politics of envy if we reverse a politics of greed." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh http://amzn.to/Mul8oD
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Economic inequality translates
"Economic inequality translates into political inequality, and political inequality yields > economic inequality." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh
Twitter / stiglitzian: "We have located the underlying
"We have located the underlying source of the problem: political inequities and policies that have commodified and corrupted our democracy."
Twitter / stiglitzian: "Widening and deepening
"Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves." http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh
Twitter / stiglitzian: Last article in the @nytimes
Last article in the @nytimes series The Great Divide: "Inequality Is Not Inevitable" by Joseph Stiglitz http://nyti.ms/1lzZiWh
Twitter / stiglitzian: Joseph Stiglitz: "The North
Joseph Stiglitz: "The North Atlantic malaise: failures in economic policy" (May 2014) http://bit.ly/1jxbceV #video #lecture
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