Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[Keith Davis]

I think it can all be reduced to over- population. There will be inequalities, the more over-population, the more inequality.

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> On Jan 19, 2016, at 5:33 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Remember in the intro to SLOW LEARNER where Pynchon smoothly moves to
> suggesting
> injustice might be a class matter? As well as the major novels and a
> book about him with this title.
> 
> 
> 
> ANTHONY ATKINSON'S NEW BOOK, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, is both
> emblem and evidence of this shift in mainstream economic thinking.
> Atkinson, of the London School of Economics and Oxford’s Nuffield
> College, is the dean of economists who study inequality. After an
> exhaustive compilation of data and trends, Atkinson bluntly attributes
> rising inequality directly or indirectly to “changes in the balance of
> power.” Thus, he adds, “Measures to reduce inequality can be
> successful only if countervailing power is brought to bear.”
> 
> Though it has not attracted the celebrity attention, in many respects
> Atkinson’s work is more important than Thomas Piketty’s pathbreaking
> Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and is the perfect sequel. Where
> Piketty explained the tendency of wealth and income to concentrate,
> Atkinson digs deeper into what drove this shift and why conventional
> remedies will not reverse the trends. He has a far surer grasp than
> Piketty of the political dynamics that made possible the anomalous
> egalitarian era of the 30 glorious years after World War II.
> 
> 
> from a long review/ piece in THE AMERICAN PROSPECT by the estimable
> Robert Kuttner which I am not linking to since almost no one will read
> it and those who will will eagerly go there on their own.
> 
> PS countervailing power. an economic concept I first learned from JK
> Galbraith.back in the day.
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