Krugman and Kapital
…much influenced by the experience of the super rich. He has been flirting with Marx for a while (Thomas Piketty seems to be a mutual friend who helped them break…
…much influenced by the experience of the super rich. He has been flirting with Marx for a while (Thomas Piketty seems to be a mutual friend who helped them break…
…now in the Chilean Congress. So political progress was made. Yet progress is tough because the rich own the public school system and hold on to their self-interests. I taught…
…a horse race between the preferences of average voters and those of economic elites – defined as individuals at the top tenth percentile of the income distribution – to see…
…has been fed an excessively rich air-fuel mixture that cannot be ignited. This is caused by the mixture exceeding the upper explosive limit for the particular fuel. An engine in…
I’ve pointed out multiple times that despite Europe’s big, supposedly growth-strangling governments, Europe and the U.S. have grown at the same rate over the last 45 years. Here’s the latest…
…give yoooge tax cuts to the rich. Very unsurprisingly, Trump claimed otherwise “the very rich are going to end up probably paying more” This is an amazing lie, because the…
…rich accompanied by a tax increase for many in the middle class were wrong: “When we work with Congress and go through this, it will be very clear. This is…
…cuts to the rich, but you don’t have to gut the AMT and you certainly can tweak the way the AMT works to ensure that the rich don’t benefit from…
…polling on specific brackets or exactly who counts as rich that I can find,” Matty just google [income to be rich poll]. Jeez. Americans have varying ideas of how much…
…vulgar utilitarian egalitarianism. Normally, this is a bad idea, because one can’t credibly promise to do it just this once. Once off redistribution from rich entrepreneurs can add to utility,…