Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Rise of the New Global Plutocratic Elite and the Crisis of the Middle Class.

The Rise of the New Global Elite. By Chrystia Freeland. The Atlantic, January/February 2011. Also find it here and here.

How the iPod Explains Globalization. By Chrystia Freeland. New York Times, June 30, 2011. Also find it here.

Modern capitalism isn’t working for the middle class. By Chrystia Freeland. Reuters, September 20, 2011.

Wall Street protesters challenge Reagan Revolution. By Chrystia Freeland. Reuters, October 14, 2011.

Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions. By Chrystia Freeland. New York Times, January 22, 2012.

Putting the magnifying glass on the one percent. By Chrystia Freeland. Reuters, February 8, 2013.

The Plutocracy Will Go to Extremes to Keep the 1% in Control. By Bill Moyers, Chrystia Freeland, and Matt Taibbi. Video and Transcript. AlterNet, October 19, 2012. Also at BillMoyers.com.


Plutocracy Rising October 19, 2012 Full Show from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Can the Middle Class Be Saved? By Don Peck. The Atlantic, September 2011. Also find it here and here.

Why Elites Fail. By Christopher Hayes. The Nation, June 6, 2012.

In the Inequality Debate, Both Sides Are Wrong. By Brink Lindsey. Forbes, August 13, 2012.

Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter — and More Unequal. By Brink Lindsey. Video. Cato Institute, February 18, 2013. YouTube.

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. Vanity Fair, May 2011.

The 1 Percent’s Problem. By Joseph E. Stiglitz. Vanity Fair, May 31, 2012.

Q&A: Joseph Stiglitz on the Fallacy That the Top 1 Percent Drives Innovation, and Why the Reagan Administration Was America’s Inequality Turning Point. By Cullen Murphy. Vanity Fair, June 5, 2012.

Left Out. By Francis Fukuyama. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class? By Francis Fukuyama. Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012.

The Broken Contract: Inequality and American Decline. By George Packer. Foreign Affairs, November/December 2011.

Is Meritocracy A Sham? By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, July 1, 2012.

American Dreams, American Resentments. By Walter Russell Mead. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

Let Us Now Praise Private Equity. By Reihan Salam. National Review, February 6, 2012. Also find it here.

Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances. By Ajay Kapur, Niall MacLeod, and Narendra Singh. Citigroup Global Markets, October 16, 2005.

Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer. By Ajay Kapur, Niall MacLeod, and Narendra Singh. Citigroup Global Markets, March 5, 2006.

The Plutonomy Symposium: Rising Tides Lifting Yachts. By Ajay Kapur, Niall MacLeod, Tobias M. Levkovich, et al. Citigroup Global Markets, September 29, 2006.

The Citigroup Plutonomy Memos: Two bombshell documents that Citigroup’s lawyers try to suppress, describing in detail the rule of the first 1%. Political Gates, December 10, 2011.

Citigroup’s plutonomy memos. By Cathy O’Neil. mathbabe, August 30, 2012.

Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain. By Maarten Goos and Alan Manning. The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2007.

Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America. By Frank Levy and Peter Temin. MIT Working Paper, June 27, 2007.

Who Captures Value in a Global Innovation Network? The Case of Apple’s iPod. By Greg Linden, Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Communications of the ACM, March 2009.

Innovation and Job Creation in a Global Economy: The Case of Apple’s iPod. By Greg Linden, Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Journal of International Commerce and Economics, May 2011.

Bankers’ Pay and Extreme Wage Inequality in the UK. By Brian Bell and John Van Reenen. Centre for Economic Performance, April 2010.

The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market. By David Autor. Center for American Progress, April 30, 2010. Also find it here.

As Middle Class Shrinks, P&G Aims High and Low. By Ellen Byron. Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2011.

The firece urgency of fixing economic inequality. By Lawrence Summers. Reuters, November 21, 2012.

Terms of Contention: Plutocracy and Democracy. By Adam Garfinkle. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

The Inequality That Matters. By Tyler Cowen. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

Hedging Risk. By Sebastian Mallaby and Matthew Klein. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

Courting Plutocracy. By Ruth Wedgwood. The American Interest, January/February 2011.

Democracy and Oligarchy. By Jeffrey A. Winters. The American Interest, November/December 2011.

The Foreign Policy of Plutocracies. By James Kurth. The American Interest, November/December 2011.