Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[Mark Kohut]

I have just done a quick self-study for a Talking Group. Population
has gone down in (maybe) every country when the standard of living
has enough 'middle class' in it.

It is the still "developing countries" where the replacement births still
exceed zero growth by a lot. The huge number of young now alive
in the world does mean that they project continuing growth of population
until maybe Peak Population around 2050.

But growth is slowing and may accelerate its slowing.

One fascinating aspect is how it seems women make this happen.
They take charge of the number of children born since men are dickheads.


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:31 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >>
> >> > 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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