Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[Mark Kohut]

Nah. many countries, the US and Germany say, are at less-than-even natural
birth demographics.


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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