Inequality – The Choices We’ve Made – A Concise Timeline

Most of us recognize that Inequality is a growing problem and last year Thomas Piketty in his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, gave a data driven economic analysis on the self-feeding implications of capital concentration in the hands of the few.  But to get a better understanding of the various political decisions that have lead to the current situation, Yes! Magazine created a stunning visual timeline of Hedrick Smith’s analysis from his book - Who Stole the American Dream?.  Putting Piketty’s work together with Smith’s fleshes out the Systems Thinking analysis of the drivers and outputs of the current inequality problem.


 


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Here is Hedrick Smith speaking in a 20 minute video presentation about his book – Who Stole the American Dream?

 


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Published on April 12, 2015 13:16
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