Sunday, June 3, 2012

Income inequality

  • Edward Conard has gotten a lot of press lately for writing a book that praises income inequality.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • While some income inequality is generally considered necessary in a free market economy, extreme inequality is not. In the United States, there are far more poor people than wealthy ones — and the gap between the rich and poor is growing.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The idea that the Great Recession of 2008 may have been caused not just by careless banking but also social inequality is currently all the rage among macroeconomists.
  • (The Guardian)
  • How? Its surprisingly simple. Turns out, demand for trees in neighborhoods behaves a lot like a luxury item, as opposed to a basic necessity. Tim De Chant at The Per Square Mile blog wrote about research on this a couple of weeks ago.
  • (Boing Boing (blog))
  • Just a suggestion. After all, I suspect the rage over Diddy and son largely has been inflamed by the way daddy Diddy symbolizes our societys unresolved issues of income inequality, class divisions and culture wars.
  • (Evansville Courier-Press)
  • There was a bit of a scandal last week when it was reported that a TED Talk on income equality had been censored. That turned out to be not quite the entire story.
  • (Salon)
  • New Haven, Connecticut - It occurs to me that no one is talking about the root cause of so much austerity in Europe - democratically elected governments have become in thrall to the demands of undemocratic banks.
  • (Aljazeera.com)
  • BOSTON — The term "income inequality" and the idea of the 99 percent versus the 1 percent became part of the vernacular almost overnight following the explosion of the Occupy movement last year.
  • (WBUR)
  • The two satellite photos that you are seeing above are from the Ball Square in Somerville and West Cambridge. Do you notice the differences? I'm sure you have.
  • (UberGizmo (blog))

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