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Low Inflation And Government Prudence May Be Harmful For Economic Development.

The Widely Accepted Assertion That, Only If You Let Markets Be Will Everyone Be Paid Correctly And Thus Fairly, According To His Worth, Is A Myth. Only When We Part With This Myth And Grasp The Political Nature Of The Market And The Collective Nature Of Individual Productivity Will We Be Able To Build A More Just Society In Which Historical Legacies And Collective Actions, And Not Just Individual Talents And Efforts, Are Properly Taken Into Account In Deciding How To Reward People.

Since The 1980s, We Have Given The Rich A Bigger Slice Of Our Pie In The Belief That They Would Create More Wealth, Making The Pie Bigger Than Otherwise Possible In The Long Run. The Rich Got The Bigger Slice Of The Pie All Right, But They Have Actually Reduced The Pace At Which The Pie Is Growing.

The Top 10 Per Cent Of The Us Population Appropriated 91 Per Cent Of Income Growth Between 1989 And 2006, While The Top 1 Per Cent Took 59 Per Cent.

There Are Different Ways To Organise Capitalism. Free-market Capitalism Is Only One Of Them-and Not A Very Good One At That.