Posts Tagged ‘inequality’
Latest review for Financial Times
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18 May 2012Michael Savage’s Trickle Down Tyranny is probably the nuttiest book I have ever reviewed for a mainstream publication. For a start he seriously compares Barack Obama to Lenin. You can read the review here (free registration may be required) or below. It is hard to suppress a frisson of excitement associated with doing something illicit [...]
- Tags: America, book, finance, inequality, media appearances, review
Shareholder revolt is no Arab spring
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14 May 2012This is my latest column for Fund Strategy The recent wave of shareholder action against high executive remuneration has been widely welcomed as a brave “shareholder spring” against corporate excess. It would be more accurate to see it as a moralistic outburst and a damaging evasion from grappling with real economic problems. It should be [...]
- Tags: Fund Strategy, inequality
My inequality essay now on spiked
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11 May 2012My essay on the critics of inequality, previously previewed on spiked Plus, is now freely available on spiked. Its key innovation is to make a fundamental distinction between contemporary critics of inequality and support for equality. It is easy to make the mistake of assuming there is a big drive towards equality in the world [...]
- Tags: inequality, spiked
The American incomes debate
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30 Apr 2012This is my Perspective column for this week’s issue of Fund Strategy. A strong challenge has emerged to the widely held view that living standards for the average American stagnated for many years even before 2007. This is an important debate to examine because it suggests that most people did not become more prosperous even [...]
- Tags: America, consumption, economics, Fund Strategy, inequality
Pity the American left
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27 Apr 2012“The economic crisis that first hit the US in 2008 put one of America’s leading left-wing writers in an awkward spot. Only for Thomas Frank, it was not the risk of unemployment or lower wages. Instead, the financial crisis and subsequent recession threatened to undermine his pet theory: that conservatives had somehow duped ordinary Americans [...]
Inequality: a middle-class obsession
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18 Apr 2012My essay on the fundamental distinction between supporting equality and curbing inequality is available on spiked Plus. To read the full essay now you need to contribute to spiked Plus – recommended if possible. Otherwise in time it will be available on spiked itself and on this website.
- Tags: inequality, media appearances, spiked
Cover on “responsible capitalism”
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16 Apr 2012I have written this week’s Fund Strategy cover story on the debate about “responsible capitalism” in Britain. You can reading it by clicking on the link here and I will also paste the text onto this website over the next few days.
- Tags: economics, ethics, Fund Strategy, inequality, sustainability
Super-rich tied to stockmarket
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9 Apr 2012This is my Perspective column for this week’s issue of Fund Strategy. It may not be politically correct to say it but a tiny proportion of rich people matter more to the stockmarket than the rest of us do. The threshold for what counts as rich is also probably a lot less than many Fund [...]
- Tags: finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
Video of Australia debate online
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4 Apr 2012My debate in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 9 March on Closing the Poverty Gap is now available to watch online. As views will see it was a lively discussion.
- Tags: Australia, inequality, speeches
Book review for Financial Times
30 Mar 2012This is the text of my latest book review for the Financial Times. It is the first time I have covered anything to do with classical antiquity in my writing. Is there any way of escaping the terrible rut into which the debate about executive pay has fallen? As things stand, discussions of the subject [...]
- Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review, work
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