- 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))
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Income inequality
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