“the dynamic towards wealth inequality is built in…
“the dynamic towards wealth inequality is built into capitalism rather than any one country’s economic policies” http://t.co/KNwkHHxMWx #OWS
“the dynamic towards wealth inequality is built into capitalism rather than any one country’s economic policies” http://t.co/KNwkHHxMWx #OWS
Piketty’s achievement: is constructing time series data re: wealth:income ratios for diffrnt countries long term. http://t.co/gq1Za6IT1X
“[short of drastic measures], the future belongs to people who simply own stuff they inherited from their parents” http://t.co/Gg8prdV9ll
Been using Hootsuite plugin to do that (what I just mentioned in prev tweet) , but it is cool of @VoxDotCom to build in that functionality
.@VoxDotCom site does a really cool thing: When you highlight text, it supplies a Tweet/Facebook link to post that quote along with link.
“Piketty’s econ analysis is different from Marx’s, but his bottom line = Marx was right to worry about capitalism.” http://t.co/dkbbkXDi7o
The short guide to Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century” http://t.co/UYf3ZrKh9I via @VoxDotCom by @mattyglesias
4-16-14 event incl @NYTimesKrugman & @JosephEStiglitz on lecture by Thomas Piketty re: his new book to be here http://t.co/F4er7j35Gb soon
re the 3 quotes just shared, “Thomas Piketty has two centuries of data to prove his point.” – @DougHenwood
Last update is part 3/3 quotes via @DougHenwood in this http://t.co/dvNopfKQNB @bookforum review of Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”
“Only crises like war&depression, or pol’tcl interventions eg. taxation (which, to the upper classes, would be a crisis), can do the trick”
“There is no ‘natural’ mechanism inherent in the structure of such economies 4 inhibiting, much less reversing, that tendency” @DougHenwood
“Left to its own devices, wealth inevitably tends to concentrate in capitalist economies.” @DougHenwood http://t.co/QZhm6VAA6u @bookforum
RT @chrislhayes “Very clear review of Piketty from @DougHenwood here …” http://t.co/tA6EK3QSOZ