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Tag: Power

More or less equal?

23/12/202224/12/2022 - Leave a Comment

My first real consciousness of the super-rich happened as a teenager while working over the summer for my black-sheep uncle, a 1960s hippy turned Parisian artisan woodworker for the rich. …

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Out of pocket rocket

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A tale of the downfall of another powerful predatory male and its aftershocks. So once more I visited the eye-wateringly expensive restaurant, Nobed. It is a haunt of celebrities as …

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Some are more equal than others

21/12/202223/12/2022 - 1 Comment

There’s more to extreme wealth than first appears. Mark Thomas points it out. We are all used to inequality. There is inequality of height, weight, shoe size and just about …

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Power corrupts

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Innovative economic thinker, Nicholas Gruen, has been seeking to influence policy and programmes for many years in Australia and beyond. Unlike many policy proponents, he has a deep understanding of …

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Power: don’t mention it

28/03/202102/01/2022 - 2 Comments.

Do economists speak their mind or mind what they speak? Blair Fix interprets. Economists of all nationalities, when speaking about their area of expertise, have their own words and ways …

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Bangladesh: Women are prominent in politics and the workforce – but many lack decision-making powers

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In a pandemic stricken world where the economy is struggling and many human achievements have gone in reverse, the United Nations has set “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future …

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Defunding the past

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The time has come to pucker up and give Trump a kiss. Our collective sanity is being assailed by an unrelenting locust-swarm media and the groaning end of a socioeconomic …

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How wealth inequality is warping the world of philanthropy

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1.2 trillion estimated to be sitting in private foundations right now, during the pandemic, is not necessarily going to move to nonprofits. Charitable giving has been on the rise in …

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Fake news (the emperor’s old clothes)

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Tom London tells how self-aggrandisement, warmongering and bribing the population was a feature of national leadership millennia before any president. Like the Fascist dictator Mussolini, evoking the Roman Empire, and …

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Coronavirus exposes China’s rich-poor divide and personalized power networks

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The coronavirus outbreak in China has come down hard on the country’s poor who cannot afford to be quarantined, have less access to supplies, and do not have the money …

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