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The Killing Fields of Inequality G?ran Therborn
Publisher: Wiley

Feb 26, 2014 - Public hearings by an inquiry this month in Khayelitsha, an impoverished township near Cape Town, have heard chilling testimony of vigilante killings on the “field of death” and other execution sites, motivated by rising discontent with police corruption and government They are a symptom of some of its most disturbing problems: police corruption, social violence, severe inequality in public services and the lingering effects of apartheid and economic marginalization. 2)How has this leveling of global playing fields created such large returns for capital versus labor? May 9, 2013 - Posted by David Icke Brzezinski said in his 1997 book that 'the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being'. Oct 18, 2012 - It's not necessarily the case that there's anything wrong with inequality levels. MORE For example, if you saw those jobs in Midland for $14/hour that is probably because there were few people lining up for those jobs because they were going for the higher paying jobs in the oil fields. Advocates of capitalism argue that inequality, to the extent that it recognizes differences in effort and results, is good. In such an economy, only those with “monopoly employment” in government can organize and unionize without killing the “goose that lays the golden egg”, their companies. Income inequality is increasing around the world- that is, capital is taking the lion's . Mar 1, 2013 - natural result of capitalism and the free market is income inequality. Apr 20, 2014 - In his The Killing Fields of Inequality (Cambridge; Polity Press, 2014), however, Goran Therborn cites data from the US Congressional Budget Office (2011) on the composition of the top 1% of income earners in the USA. Dec 5, 2013 - Income inequality and economic justice was a subject that radicals and academics discussed, but it certainly wasn't a part of the national conversation. Mar 27, 2014 - Obama described two main topics of conversation during his meeting with the pope — “the poor, the marginalized, those without opportunity and growing inequality” and conflicts around the world, especially in the Middle East and Latin America. His message is obvious and his type is killing the Republican Party. Mar 24, 2014 - Neo-Liberals seek to remove inequality from the people's agenda at the behest of their Wall Street patrons.