Why Those Wacky Anti-Capitalists Might Be On To Something. A Critique of Capitalism by G.A. Cohen. By Lisa Wade, PhD, Dec 26, 2011, at 12:12 pm For the last week of December, we’re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011.
In this 26-minute talk, philosopher Gerald Allan Cohen offers a wonderfully eloquent critique of capitalism. Fables of Wealth.
It's the Inequality, Stupid. Want more charts like these?
See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery, the richest 1 percent of Americans, and how the superwealthy beat the IRS. How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.