Monday, April 21, 2014

Krugman: Worried About Oligarchy? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet | Common Dreams

Krugman: Worried About Oligarchy? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet | Common Dreams: (Credit: Moyers & Company)
In an interview with journalist Bill Moyers set to air Friday, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman celebrates both the insights and warnings of French economist Thomas Piketty whose new ground-breaking book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that modern capitalism has put the world "on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy—a society of inherited wealth."

The conclusions that Piketty puts forth in the book, Krugman tells Moyers, are revelatory because they show that even people who are now employing the rhetoric of the "1% versus the 99%" do not fully appreciate the disaster that global wealth inequality is causing.

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