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Thanks to globalization and trade, middle-class incomes have more than doubled in countries like China and Indonesia, but still remain a fraction of those earned by the middle class in Europe or the United States . Meanwhile, in Europe, the United States and Japan, incomes for the middle class...

Why We’re in a New Gilded Age by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books New Gilded Age Paul Krugman MAY 8, 2014 ISSUE Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 685 pp., $39.95 Emmanuelle...

"Taxpayers in the United States spend $139 billion a year on scientific research, yet much of this research is inaccessible not only to the public, but also to other scientists. This is the consequence of an exploitative scientific journal system thatrewards academic publishers while punishing...

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Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans The civil rights leader laid out his vision for fighting poverty in his final book. JORDAN WEISSMANN AUG 28 2013, 5:05 PM ET One of the more under-appreciated aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is that by...