CapitalismRevealed focuses on the $50 trillion transfer of income over the past 50 years from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 10%, most of it actually ending up in the hands of the top 1%. How did this happen?
capitalism – especially American capitalism over the past 50 years.
economics - why is neoclassical economics (that’s what is taught in Econ 101 in universities) not useful in understanding the past 50 years?
free markets, Neoliberalism, American conservatives, shareholder value theory, globalization, free-trade, financialization, etc.
the intensification and proliferation of insecurities for the bottom 90% of the population.
You will also find Notes about other matters in our current state of political crisis.
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Mark Orton
