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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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[...] there is no indication that the long-term trend towards greater economic inequality will be broken any time soon, or indeed ever. Inequality depresses growth, for Keynesian and other reasons. But the easy money currently provided by central banks to restore growth – easy for capital but not, of course, for labour – further adds to inequality, by blowing up the financial sector and inviting speculative rather than productive investment. Redistribution to the top thus becomes oligarchic: rather than serving a collective interest in economic progress, as promised by neoclassical economics, it turns into extraction of resources from increasingly impoverished, declining societies [...]

he references plutonomy here

—p.68 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck 6 years, 6 months ago