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).

The frequent claim that inequality promotes accumulation and growth does not get much support from history. On the contrary, great economic inequality has always been correlated with extreme concentration of political power, and that power has always been used to widen the income gaps through rent-seeking and rent-keeping, forces that demonstrably retard economic growth.

citation: "Measuring Ancient Inequality" (a paper)

—p.17 Technofatalism and the future--is a world without Foxconn even possible? (15) by Branko Milanović 7 years, 2 months ago