A luxury/horror of my work is that I read about a dozen newspapers a day. I’ve discovered that these headlines could be from any indiscriminate period and are repeated weekly as if it was new news.
“Greenhouse gas emissions reach record highs”
“Climate change is occurring more quickly than expected”
“Price of oil reaches record high”
“Income inequality [...]
Loretta Napoleoni, Italian economist and Fulbright Scholar, has a new book that’s piqued my interest. Her appearance on Democracy Now this week finished with me very interested in her book. [Full Transcript] Napoleoni defined rogue economics at the start of her interview with Amy Goodman:
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find [...]
The Congressional Budget Office of the United States offers the following, as reported in the New York Times:
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans… The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in [...]
