The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
theory of, 137–39 passive monopolist fallacy and, 139–40, 152 perfect competition theory of, 136–37, 137n, 164, 166 states’ roles in manifesting, 141 trickle-down theory of, 7, 139–40 serfdom. See feudal system Shabtai, Ehud, 45 Sherman Antitrust Act, 26 Sherman, John, 26–27 Shirky, Clay, 41 Siebert, Horst, 132
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
ideas refuse to die, a phenomenon commentators have called zombie economics. Among these undead ideas are the standard neoclassical economic models: the efficient market hypothesis, trickle-down economics, deregulation, and privatization. According to critics of zombie economics, these ideas need to be replaced with new and better “living ideas,” like democratic socialism, progressive
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Clinton’s tax and spending cuts, from Supreme Court decisions to Congress’s embrace of Chicago School economics, neoliberalism became the software of the state. Trickle-down economics was economics; shareholder maximization was the point of corporate law; government benefits were socialism, but corporate benefits were capitalism. The acts of legislation that helped
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homes lost through default. Homes they rented back to the people who had lost their mortgages when the banks had gone bust—a sort of trickle-down economics that tended, always, to point debt down and capital gains up. When Treasury Secretary Paulson asked Congress to authorize the $700 billion for TARP in
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, 200, 253, 258, 261, 269, 277, 285, 286, 289, 290–95, 301–3, 305–10, 358 Treasury bonds, 28, 257, 298 “Treaty of Detroit,” 75 trickle-down economics, 128, 231, 299, 349 “tricycle in the park,” 131 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 307–8, 315 trucking rules, 232 Truman, Harry, and administration, 15
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words
or discrimination. Thus, the goal of increased income equality does not come with a bill attached. We also need to abandon the mistaken faith in trickle-down economics, the notion that if the economy grows, everyone will benefit. This notion underpinned the supply-side economics policies of Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan on
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-class life. This book then is about this alternative way forward. Another world is possible—based not on the market fundamentalist belief in markets and trickle-down economics that got us into this mess; nor on the nativist, populist Trumpian economics, which repudiates the international rule of law, substituting “globalization with a club
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its comparative advantage (whether a result of specialization or resource endowments), and somehow, mystically, everyone will be better off—another instance of the belief in trickle-down economics. Even if the country as a whole is better off, it just means that everyone could be better off; the winners could share their gains
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its own: the decreased demand for labor, and especially unskilled labor, will lower wages, so that workers’ income will decrease even as national income increases. Trickle-down economics won’t work, just as it didn’t work for globalization. But government can make sure that everyone, or at least most people, are better
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on their own were efficient and stable, and that if we just let markets work their wonders and grow the economy, everybody would benefit (called trickle-down economics). Previous chapters have debunked these ideas—as if the 2008 crisis, the episodic high levels of unemployment, and our massive inequality weren’t proof enough
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economists wanted to believe globalization was good for all—even if we didn’t introduce compensatory policies. Trickle-down economics, even by then, had become deeply ingrained. 40.That is, whether it was a delusion with trickle-down economics referred to in the previous note, or a delusion that, while recognizing that workers were actually worse
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trade adjustment assistance, but when, given Republican opposition, adequate assistance failed to be provided, many continued their support nonetheless, seemingly in the belief that somehow trickle-down economics would, after all, work. 27.In such systems, it may even be difficult to ascertain systemic stability. See Stefano Battiston, Guido Caldarelli, Robert M. May
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and, 217 public vs. private sector, 189, 214 of voting, 161 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 87 transparency, disclosure laws and, 171 Treasury Department, US, 173 trickle-down economics, xxv, 38, 82–83; See also supply-side economics TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), 89 Trump, Donald, and administration; See also tax
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
growing together.19 This was true not only in the decades after World War II but, even in more recent times, in the 1990s.20 Trickle-down economics Inequality’s apologists—and they are many—argue to the contrary that giving more money to the top will benefit everyone, partly because it would
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lead to more growth. This is an idea called trickle-down economics. It has a long pedigree—and has long been discredited. As we’ve seen, higher inequality has not led to more growth, and most Americans
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have actually seen their incomes sink or stagnate. What America has been experiencing in recent years is the opposite of trickle-down economics: the riches accruing to the top have come at the expense of those down below.21 One can think of what’s been happening in
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a very big slice, about a fifth of the entire pie. But that means everyone else gets a smaller slice. Now, those who believe in trickle-down economics call this the politics of envy. One should look not at the relative size of the slices but at the absolute size. Giving more to
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2010.24 (Median income is the income such that half have an income greater than that number, half less.) We’ll show later that whereas trickle-down economics doesn’t work, trickle-up economics may: all—even those at the top—could benefit by giving more to those at the bottom and the
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first is that globalization will increase the country’s overall output as measured, for instance, by GDP. The second is that if GDP is increased, trickle-down economics will ensure that all will benefit. Neither argument is correct. It is true that when markets work perfectly, free trade allows people to move from
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might be viewed as economic mechanisms, reinforced and shaped by politics and public policy. But there are deeper, distorting effects of inequality on our society. Trickle-down economics may be a chimera, but trickle-down behaviorism is very real. People below the top 1 percent increasingly aspire to imitate those above them. Of
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than just luck. Other ideas (the importance of incentives and incentive pay) suggest that there would be a high price to reducing inequality. Still others (trickle-down economics) suggest that high inequality is not really that bad, since all are better off than they would be in a world without such a high
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dollar. Hence making the tax system more progressive not only reduces inequality but stimulates the economy as well. Trickle-up economics can work, even when trickle-down economics doesn’t. Even the rich can benefit from the increased GDP, in some cases even enough to offset the increased taxes they would have to
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, such programs are perhaps even more important there than elsewhere. Restoring sustainable and equitable growth A growth agenda, based on public investment. We explained why trickle-down economics doesn’t work: growth doesn’t automatically benefit all. But growth does provide the resources with which to tackle some of society’s most intractable
How to Fix Copyright
by William Patry · 3 Jan 2012 · 336pp · 90,749 words
engaged in these activities have lower incomes than others with similar training and education, have episodic employment, and fewer benefits such as health care.112 Trickle-down economics works just as poorly in the copyright market as it does in the general economy. The term “trickle-down” has been attributed to humorist Will
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the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hand.”113 Trickle-down economics is based on an ideology that reducing taxes on the already wealthy will cause them to re-invest the saved amount in new productive endeavors
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Source: Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School; Dan Ariely, Duke University Here are a few facts about how the income gap came about and how trickle-down economics is simply redistribution of wealth upwards.When Ronald Reagan began his Presidency in January 1981, the top marginal tax rate was dramatically reduced from 69
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.”123 Copyright is a trickle-up system in which increasing rights results in more money flowing up, away from creators. 114 HOW TO FIX COPYRIGHT Trickle-down Economics and Restoration of Cultural Works One justification for the current, almost perpetual, term of copyright concentrated in large corporations is that longer rights will cause
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those entrepreneurs who would take the risk of reissuing works the major labels refuse to. Trickle-down copyright economics works just as poorly as general trickle-down economics does. WHAT ARE COPYRIGHT LAWS SUPPOSED TO DO? 119 CULTURAL INDUSTRIES VERSUS CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: THE PROBLEMS WITH DEFINITIONS Then-former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton’s
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GLOBAL COPYRIGHT LAWS 253 Looking behind the rising-tide metaphor, it is readily apparent there are significant problems with it, the same ones found with trickle-down economics: both assume that helping the rich now will help the poor later. But not all boats are made alike and not all are in the
Year 501
by Noam Chomsky · 19 Jan 2016
” in preference to “public expenditures in the social sectors,” and “less emphasis should be placed on social objectives which increase consumption”—“temporarily,” until the famed trickle-down effects are detected, some time after the Messiah arrives. The recommendations, it is understood, are a precondition to aid, and a bright future is sure to
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Apr 2015 · 324pp · 93,606 words
richest 1 per cent so they have more to spend on charity is trickle-down theory in its baldest form. Bishop and Green have made this clear: ‘Today’, they write approvingly in Philanthrocapitalism, ‘Carnegie would be called a believer in trickle-down economics. As he argued, it is “much better this great irregularity than universal squalor
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when establishing his own foundation. But what is surprising about Bishop and Green’s praise for Carnegie is their openly approving use of the phrase ‘trickle-down economics’. And not in an ironic manner. The economist J. Kenneth Galbraith used to scornfully liken trickle-down policies to what he described as the ‘horse
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struck a sensitive chord with those on the right. Long deployed by most commentators in a pejorative manner, no political party has ever openly advocated trickle-down economics – not even those assumed to have most embraced its spirit: the Republicans under Reagan or the Conservatives under Thatcher. While Thatcher once famously proclaimed ‘it
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themselves with supply-side economics, a tradition in macroeconomics that suggests low taxes and reduced regulation will foster more production, consumption and economic growth. But ‘trickle-down’ economics has never been explicit, publicly vocalized party policy, perhaps because many on the right are canny enough to realize that making it an official doctrine
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
by Tyler Cowen · 15 Oct 2018 · 140pp · 42,194 words
citizens in East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America have seen significant gains in their standard of living, and much of this has been a trickle-down effect from the earlier growth of the wealthier countries. Much of Africa is now following suit, bolstered in part by China’s demand for raw materials
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supporting immigration and producing new technologies with global reach, such as cell phones and new methods for boosting agricultural productivity. Many people mock the term “trickle-down economics,” but most social benefits do take a trickle-down form. We should of course prefer a flood to a trickle, which brings us back to
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believed, then the rich earn higher returns on their accumulated wealth, as has been argued by the French economist Thomas Piketty. If we combine the trickle-down effect from the wealth of the wealthy with a zero rate of discount, it is easy to generate scenarios in which utilitarianism would recommend the redistribution
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
redistribution of wealth from top to bottom and would mean challenging the neoliberal playbook. On the campaign trail, Clinton mocked her opponent’s “Trumped-up trickle-down economics,” but her own philosophy is what we might call “trickle-down identity politics”: tweak the system just enough to change the genders, colors, and sexual
A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 May 2014 · 385pp · 111,807 words
Bang’ transition back to capitalism), through to the disasters of ‘austerity’ policies in most European countries following the Great Depression, down to the failures of ‘trickle-down economics’ in the US and the UK during the 1980s and the 1990s, history is littered with radical policy experiments that have destroyed the lives of
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they created more wealth, it was argued, the rich would spend more, creating more jobs and incomes for everyone else; this is known as the trickle-down theory. At the same time, subsidies to the poor (especially in housing) were cut and the minimum wage frozen so that they had a greater incentive
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tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.’1 The belief in the trickle-down effect has prompted many governments to employ – or at least has provided them with the political cover for – pro-rich policies in the last three decades
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