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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is nothing inherently bad about inequality. Whether it is bad depends on how it comes about and what it does.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
- Harmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell our services in markets that are larger and richer than our parents could have dreamed of.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020