Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[Keith Davis]

I'm not stuck on it, but when I look around, there are all these people!

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> On 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.
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