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Fishermen carry a boat in Indonesia. Credit: Jim Holmes/Oxfam

Should we (and everyone in Davos) worry about extreme wealth?

First posted on From Poverty to Power, Duncan Green on how we cannot afford to ignore the extreme inequality produced by extreme wealth.  ...

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'Indignez vous' graffiti from Nantes. Credit: Freddy Mechin

Bad economics and bad arithmetic: austerity is not working

European leaders pushing austerity as the solution to the current economic crisis are guilty of bad economics, bad arithmetic and ignoring the lessons of history. That's  not just my view but the considered opinion of a group of leading economists and social scientists expressed in a new booklet Be Outraged: There are alternatives. ...

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