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
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
and immediately win. Wanniski made up a legitimate-sounding name—supply-side economics. For anyone else to benefit, what Democrats since the Depression had called trickle-down economics also had to operate—that is, the supply-side tax cuts (and deregulation) would have to make businesses boom and rich people profit so gloriously
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went up, no trickle-down benefits after they went down. We’ve now had four decades to judge the failure of laissez-faire supply-side trickle-down economics for most Americans, yet the right sticks to its story, unrevised. As Republicans rewrote the tax code in 2017—cutting the tax rate on all
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
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
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
, twenty-five years after the term was coined, even as compelling evidence has built up that, as Cornell University economist Robert H. Frank has written, trickle-down theory is “supported neither by economic theory nor by empirical evidence.” NOT JUST A CHILEAN PARADOX Our taxi finally arrived at our destination, a modern white
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terror Thain, John Thani, Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al- Thatcher, Margaret think tanks Thomas-Graham, Pamela Thucydides Tillerson, Rex W. trade liberalization Trichet, Jean-Claude trickle-down theory Trilateral Commission Trump, Donald Tsouli, Younis Tucker, James Turner, Mike Twilight of Sovereignty, The (Wriston) Tymoshenko, Yuliya Tyson, Laura Unger, Craig United Defense company United
The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
by Robert H. Frank · 3 Sep 2011
’s only a matter of degree.”2 But it’s not just libertarians who believe taxes inhibit economic growth. Variations of that view, often called trickle-down theory, have been repeated so often by so many people across the political spectrum that it has acquired an air of settled truth. 157 158 CHAPTER
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’t tell us anything about what would happen if we increased actual tax rates on top earners, which are nowhere close to 100 percent. For trickle-down theory to be of interest, then, it must assert something like this: At the tax rates actually observed in modern industrial countries, further rate hikes on
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before. Economic theory tells us nothing—absolutely nothing—about of which of these opposing effects might prevail. If economic theory provides no justification for the trickle-down doctrine, what do the numbers say? Here as well, the doctrine finds little support. One test is suggested by the observation that if lower real wages
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trickledown theory, then, Americans should be working significantly longer hours now. Yet the current American workweek is only about half what it was in 1900. Trickle-down theory also predicts shorter workweeks in countries with lower real after-tax pay rates. Yet here, too, the numbers tell a different story. For example, even
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less than one-fifth as much as American CEOs and face substantially higher marginal tax rates, they actually work longer hours than their American counterparts. Trickle-down theory’s emphasis on incentives has led many to predict that greater income inequality should be positively correlated with economic growth rates. The idea here is
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growth rates.3 Time after time, the pattern is the opposite of the one predicted by trickledown theory. The Small Business Fallacy Another variant of trickle-down theory was invoked by George W. Bush in 2001, and then again by John McCain in 2008, as the two men sought to defend reduced taxes
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him no matter how big a tax cut he got. In sum, neither economic theory nor available empirical evidence provides support for either variant of trickle-down theory. We have no persuasive reasons to believe that higher taxes on top earners would inhibit economic growth. And yet, as noted, this claim is often
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, 157–58; and income inequality, correlation between, 159–60; lower taxes as inhibitor of, 162–64, 167–68, 213; from taxes on harmful activities, 158; trickle-down theory of, 157–62; after World War II, 1 economic models: context-free, 27–29, 69–72; of human motivation, 24–25; of retirement saving, 54
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rank, 126–31 income tax cuts: under Bush (George W.), 3, 119, 155, 170; as inhibitor of economic growth, 162–64; temporary, effectiveness of, 83; trickle-down theory of, 157–62 income transfers: in efficient public policies, 104, 111–18, 123–26; libertarian objections to, 104, 111, 117, 123–26 indirect harm, 11
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., 150–51 slippery slope argument, 193 slogans, antitax, 168–71, 194–95 small businesses: job creation by, 160–62; as labor-managed firms, 32; in trickle-down theory, 160–62 Smith, Adam: versus Darwin, as intellectual father of economics, 16–17; skepticism about good market outcomes, 7, 18; on task specialization, 43, 203
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, 6, 168–69, 202; slogans opposing, 168–71, 194–95; as social engineering, 13–14, 122–23; as theft, 6, 119, 154, 168–69, 202; trickle-down theory of, 157–62. See also specific types tax(es), on harmful activities, 13–15, 172–93; alcohol taxes as, 185–87; causing indirect harm, 187
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; tobacco taxes as, 184–85; versus useful activities, 13–15, 122. See also consumption tax, progressive; pollution taxes tax cuts: payroll tax, 13, 14, 112; trickle-down theory of, 157–62. See also income tax cuts tax rates: capital gains, 163; for hedge fund managers, 163, 167; marginal, 77; on top earners, impact
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-take-all markets, 164–68 transaction costs: Coase on, 91, 137, 178; definition of, 91 Transparency International, 56 transportation, public, 171. See also infrastructure spending trickle-down theory, 157–62 unemployment: in economic downturn of 2008, 2, 53–55; payroll tax cuts and, 13, 14 240 INDEX United States government. See government University
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes · 4 Jun 2018 · 470pp · 148,444 words
that he would give the following day in Colorado. “Make it the final verdict on a certain approach,” he said, referring to the mix of trickle-down economics and deregulation that had dominated American political discourse since Reagan. “But make sure you run the language by these guys first.” It was a good
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
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
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