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We’re Now Number 77 in Income Inequality

(This blog first appeared online on The Huffington Post) On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen can all too easily numb, but occasionally a few very simple numbers are worth pondering a bit more closely than others. Like these three: The United States now ranks number 77 out of 142 countries […]

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The Undeserving Rich

(This article first appeared in the March/April 2010 issue of Dollars & Sense) Collectively produced and inherited knowledge and the (re)distribution of income and wealth. By Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men in the nation, is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he “deserve” all this money? Why? Did he […]

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Justice and Injustice

(This article first appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of Tikkun Magazine.) Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Knowledge Economy By Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly Today the top 1 percent garners more income than the bottom 120 million Americans taken together. The top 1 percent owns nearly half of all individually held investment capital—roughly as […]

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Unjust Deserts: An Interview with Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly

(This article first appeared online on Dissent Magazine) If the conservative era now collapsing around us had a reigning idea, it was best expressed by Margaret Thatcher when she declared with Bourbonesque flair that “there is no such thing as society.” In their new book Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking our Common Inheritance […]

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