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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Inter-generationally, there are more mice, the mice are more hungry, and there is less cheese in life’s maze. 
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May 21, 2015 1:26 AM
When thinking of educating for the future, an economists perspective on the value of different types of jobs within future markets is worthy of consideration. Interesting stuff here!
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Anyone who has ever asked me for tips on content verification and debunking of fakes knows one of the first things I always mention is reverse image search. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful tools at your disposal. This week provided another good example of how overlooked it is.
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We help our community businesses, because they deserve the same great customer service and low prices that big corporate businesses get. And we've grown our company by earning the trust of each and...
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If governments had taken a hands-on approach to industrial development the UK wouldn’t have suffered the huge loss of secure jobs we’ve seen in recent years
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The great divide between our beliefs, our ideals, and reality
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The former secretary of labor debunks one of the longest running myths about higher education
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The sharing economy will do very little to reduce income inequality — if it even survives at all.
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The problem with undemocratic institutions – be they the government of a country or a business – is that they do the bidding of those in charge at the top, without being accountable to others who have to live with the consequences of their actions.
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Economist dings Bush and other Republicans for empty rhetoric about inequality
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Most rich people agree with the goals of redistribution but would like to ensure that their money is well spent, and new technologies can help in this regard, writes Lorenzo Fioramonti
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Regular readers know that I sometimes mock “very serious people” — politicians and pundits who solemnly repeat conventional wisdom that sounds tough-minded and realistic. The trouble is that sounding serious and being serious are by no means the same thing, and some of those seemingly tough-minded positions are actually ways to dodge the truly hard issues.
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Recently, I ran across this very interesting distribution table on Quora that made me reminisce about the old days of Occupy Wall Street. We are the 99%, right? Maybe in more ways than one, as the table would go on to show.
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Francois Bourguignon’s The Globalization of Inequality is an interesting companion to Tony Atkinson’s Inequality, which I reviewed here recently. It’s a different kind of book, a relatively short argument about why and how to make the globalization process fairer, as contrasted with Atkinson’s longer and detailed description and analysis of inequality in the UK with a substantial list of policy recommendations. It’s useful to have the global picture alongside the national one, however, because the story globally is of much increased incomes in the middle of the distribution in a few countries – largely China – as well as gains among the richest groups.
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The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.
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It's bad enough that they've bought our politicians. Now the wealthy have bought off the only institutions that can counter their influence.
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The crucial role of exclusionary zoning in driving inequality.
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When people say Americans are dividing along class lines, they usually mean it as a metaphor. But it's also true in a literal sense. When it comes to where we live, the rich, poor, and shrinking middle class have been moving further apart.
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With the size of Wall Street bonuses commonly being compared against the median household income, income inequality has quickly become a hot-button political issue in the United States.
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Kemal Derviş examines the role that public money plays in driving global inequality and the concentration of wealth at the very top of the income distribution.
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The problem with undemocratic institutions – be they the government of a country or a business – is that they do the bidding of those in charge at the top, without being accountable to others who have to live with the consequences of their actions.
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At the peak of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, Nirav Tolia watched his consumer reviews website Epinions surge to a valuation of about $150 million, then quickly plummet to $30 million.
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The former secretary of labor on the rise of "independent contractors" and the threat they pose to our labor force
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