Introductory Remarks on a Discussion of the Declaration of Independence

The latest issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 999), discussed this introduction by Mortimer Adler to a discussion of the American Declaration of Independence conduction at the University of North Carolina in February 1984.

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Conclusion to "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J.Adler

The latest issue/s of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 998), concluded the discussion of The Capitalist Manifesto (1958), by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler.

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"The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J.Adler

The latest issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 978), begins a serialization of The Capitalist Manifesto (1958) by Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler.

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How to Spread the Wealth

Anthony B. Atkinson on "Practical Policies for Reducing Inequality" at Foreign Affairs

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Why Doesn’t The US Have A European-Style Welfare State?

Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote at The Brooking Institution

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Misperceiving Inequality

Vladimir Gimpelson and Daniel Treisman at the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series

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Is Democracy Good for the Poor?

Michael Ross at the American Journal of Political Science

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Homer Gets a Tax Cut

Larry M. Bartels on "Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind", published in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Mar., 2005), pp. 15-31.

(via Adam Berinsky)

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Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?

Adam Bonica, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal at the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference

Presentation on this book by Alberto Alesina and Edward L. Glaeser at the World Bank.

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Readers of the world unite

Review essay by Jonathan Wolff on

• A World to Win: The life and work of Karl Marx, by Sven-Erik Liedman, translated by Jeffrey N. Skinner
• Marx and Marxism, by Gregory Claeys
• Why Marx was Right, by Terry Eagleton
• The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted by Martin Rowson

at The Times Literary Supplement

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Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children

James J. Heckman at Science

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Guns Germs And Steel

National Geographic adaptation of Jared Diamond's book:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 transdisciplinary nonfiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures, and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

Part 1 of 3 at YouTube;

Part 2 of 3 at YouTube;

Part 3 of 3 at YouTube.

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Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality

Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbuth at American Political Science Review

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Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans

Benjamin I. Page, Larry M. Bartels, and Jason Seawright, at Jamie Druckman

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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, at Perspectives on Politics

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Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement

Paper presented by Frederick Solt at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-18, 2004.

Inequality and public good provision: An experimental analysis

Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo at The Journal of Socio-Economics

"Startups" and income inequality

Income Inequality, by Paul Graham

A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong. By Ezra Klein

A Reply to Ezra Klein, by Paul Graham

Seahawks lineman Russell Okung responds to Paul Graham’s essay on economic inequality and startups, by Russell Okung

A Reply to Russell Okung, by Paul Graham

Why did it take so long?

The latest issue of The Great Ideas Online, the Center's weekly, discussed Mortimer Adler on "long persistent denial or misunderstanding of the truth that all human beings are by nature equal."

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