AAAARG sounds like something that Charlie Brown might say, out of frustration.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Bill Quimby <[email protected]> wrote: > Good news! Our Michael Perelman's 2007 book "The Confiscation of > American Prosperity: From Right-wing Extremism and Economic > Ideology to the Next Great Depression" is also one of the books > offered full text at that http://a.aaaarg.org site I posted. > > From the Prologue.. > > "This book does not belabor the obvious injustices of inequality; instead, > it > describes the extent of this confiscation of wealth, how the perpetrators > managed > to pull it off, and, finally, how this confiscation is setting the stage for > a > catastrophic depression. Leaders in the world of business and government, as > well as professional economists, seem oblivious to the dangers ahead. The > extreme inequities in society breed a hubris that prevents them from even > considering the possibility that they are contributing to a catastrophe. All > the > while, the economics profession seems unable to comprehend the depth of > the problem. > > Unless strong actions are taken, the calamity that currently afflicts the > poor is > certain to trickle up, engulfing even the very rich. I do not mean that the > very > rich will become destitute; only that the losses they will eventually > experience > will far outweigh the vast amount of extra wealth and income they now claim > for themselves." > > - Bill > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
