Tagged: inequality
The Case for Monopoly
Board Game Symposium: If anything, Monopoly teaches that, despite your best planning, wise investment, and sound judgment, sometimes the universe has other plans (or no plan at all).
Those Dastardly Billionaires, or Something
“Evil rich” and it’s slightly more polite colloquial cousin “greedy rich” are very old – and occasionally true – stereotypes, and will never go away. But we should not accept them on face value, and we certainly should not be making wide-ranging and binding policy based off it.
Inequality, the Landed Gentry, the Middle Class, and Capitalism
With the help of other bloggers, James Hanley explains why this guy isn’t as poor as you think he is, and neither is the middle class.
Education is Important, but not in the Fight Against Inequality
David Leonhardt is confused about inequality, at least according to his shallow dive into Thomas Picketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
The Necessary Uneasiness of Independent School Benefits
Do gala auctions make economic inequality in independent schools better or worse? Kazzy says the answer is: Yes.
Inequality is more than a just an ideological cudgel
Liberals disagree with Adolph Reed Jr.’s Harper’s essay less than they think.
Inequality and MLK
An insightful Bloomberg op-ed highlights the special relationship between Martin Luther King and organized labor.
Meanwhile, Our Children Continue Their Undaunted Assault on Mammon…
I have a piece up at the Atlantic called “What’s Really Behind the Ever-Rising Cost of Raising a Child in America“. You should go read (and comment) there. To summarize: the cost of raising...
The Inequality President
Reading the interview, you get the impression of a guy already trying to define the way his presidency is interpreted and his immediate post-presidency is understood.
System Failure: What David Brooks Doesn’t Get About Meritocracy — And Why He Never Will
David Brooks’s latest, this one on the meritocracy, is a good example of how all the right questions and smart anaylsis in the world is not going to make up for a totally wrong premise...
Are Rubio and Ryan Serious About Inequality?
David Graham of The Atlantic has a good piece wondering whether we should take seriously the recent murmurs of GOP rebranding emanating from the Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio camps. The basis for the speculation is a Politico...
Inequality, Freedom, and Dignity
Note: This post is a belated entry to our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
Inequality by Half Measures
By M.A. Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
How Inequality Harms
By M.A. Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...
Why Inequality Is Necessary
By Mark Olson Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so...
Government Enforced Inequality
By James Hanley Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so...
Initial Thoughts on Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
The Positive Sum Outlook
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposiumhere. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. By...
