Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[John Bailey]

The roots of the 'over-population' concept are worth digging into. Big
in the US since the 70s but has only taken grip here recently. The
science is questionable. I'm not arguing one way or the other, though.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nah. many countries, the US and Germany say, are at less-than-even natural
> birth demographics.
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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.
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>> >
>> > 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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>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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