…the pundits are all missing the point: the Trump-Sanders phenomenon signals an American oligarchy on the brink of a civilization-threatening collapse.
Why Trump Phenomenon Signals an Oligarchy on the Brink of a Civilization-Threatening Collapse – Evonomics
Inequality By Sally Goerner Oligarchies win except when society enacts effective reforms. “The collapse of urban cultures is an event much more frequent than most observers realize. Often, collapse is well underway before societal elites become aware of it, leading to scenes of leaders responding retroactively and ineffectively as their society collapses around them.”
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Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs
It is the economics book that took the world by storm. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, written by the French economist Thomas Piketty, was published in French in 2013 and in English in March 2014. The English version quickly became an unlikely bestseller, and it prompted a broad and energetic debate on the book’s subject: the outlook for global inequality.