The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality
What should be done to end the Progressives influence over government and the economy and to promote the public good?
What should be done to end the Progressives influence over government and the economy and to promote the public good?
This is a short and informative but easy to read answer to both how and why the Scandinavian welfare states seem to work so well.
The capitalist system is a system in which promotion is precisely according to merit. Marx didn't like that.
The fundamental concept of the Communist Manifesto was that of “class” and “class conflict.” But Marx didn’t say what a “class” was.
The Rockefellers and their intellectual and technocratic entourage were, indeed, central to the New Deal.
Piketty’s portrayal of capitalism has not gone unchallenged, and Anti-Piketty collects a number of the most important criticisms of it.