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Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time i...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry,...

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Masha GessenThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I do...

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There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

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Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

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Thomas PikettyCapital in the Twenty-First Century

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that mo...

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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spect...

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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)...

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty...

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