Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

aka the Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, from the Gospel of Matthew: "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away"

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the matthew principle



a cumulative advantage in line with what has been called the Matthew principle

—p.60 Neoliberal Reform: From Tax State to Debt State (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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7 years ago


Low growth, in turn, reinforces inequality by intensifying distributional conflict, making concessions to the poor more costly for the rich, and making the rich insist more than before on strict observance of the ‘Matthew principle’ governing free markets

—p.48 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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6 years, 6 months ago