Watch the closing arguments in Bloomberg’s debate where Bob Reich and I supported the motion ‘It’s time to redistribute the wealth’ against Larry Summers and Allison Schrager who argued against.
Summers has a long history of refusing to recognize that the existing unequal distribution of wealth is the result of real, UPWARD redistribution, on a scale much larger than anything proposed by the left in the opposite direction. The overwhelming bulk of the top 1%'s wealth results from economic rents on artificial property rights and artificial scarcities, along with direct state subsidies.