On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:05 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote:
A book recommendation: > > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398126885&sr=1-1&keywords=capital+in+the+twenty-first+century > I am thinking of hunkering down and reading this book at some point. Doing that is probably something one would need to commit to in this case, in the same way that one would need to set aside many weeks to read Weber's *Economy and Society*. A nice summary of Piketty's argument that I've read elsewhere is something like: "increasing inequality in income is intrinsic to capitalism and is not an incidental, unrelated effect." The word "increasing" is important -- Piketty seems to be saying that with un- or under-regulated capitalism, not only do you get inequality in income (to be expected), but ever more inequality over time as well. In other words, rentiers take hold and gradually increase the scope of what they control at everyone else's expense, and this process is intrinsic to raw capitalism. Btw, here is the explanation I read for why eight or so Vortex messages ended up in the spam folder: *Why is this message in Spam?* We've found that lots of messages from eskimo.com are spam. Learn more<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1366858&ctx=mail&expand=5> So it seems that eskimo.com might have been blacklisted. Eric
