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14 Oct 2024, 8:04 am
Similarly, their “reversal of fortune” paper (AJR 2002) documented a striking pattern—among former colonies, places that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor, and vice versa. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 10:49 am
Because of those differences, the "powers that be"--i.e., existing concentrations of financial assets, prestige and associated political power among the privileged class at the very top of the income and wealth distribution-- result in redistribution upwards from poor and middle class to the upper crust. [read post]
23 Jan 2011, 9:11 am
[T]here are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 4:20 pm
This is the case even though it raises issues about the rich (and even the not so rich) and what they do. [read post]
26 Aug 2024, 8:26 am
His research focuses on AI-powered software engineering, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI application cost and carbon management. [read post]
15 May 2011, 8:11 pm
I still support expansion of nuclear power, but the safety issue clearly needs further attention. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 8:25 am
society in action: those in power who are used to being largely secluded from those governed, have found themselves watched from above, criticised and found wanting. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 9:55 am
I'm no rich man, but I'll bet any reader $1,000 that, when and if those rulings are ever released, we'll see they say no such thing. [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 3:56 pm
Leno had had a proper financial power of attorney granting her husband the authority to create an estate plan for her, it is quite possible that Mr. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 10:19 am
But slavery also affected the North, which produced a lesser-known but equally rich body of antislavery law. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 1:28 am
She also never mentions the anger the colonists felt over the British having the nerve to enforce treaties they made with the Native Americans, rather than just allowing the colonists to take over all that rich land. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 11:35 pm
" Although most people think of solar and wind power when they think of renewable energy, there are other sources. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:19 am
One illustration is the arbitrary use of government power to give or take away wealth. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 6:10 am
Indeed, it ought to be easier for publications who are members of a recognised regulator to report on the activities of the rich and powerful because, unlike now, they will be protected from expensive libel actions. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:25 am
With credit derivatives, equity short sales, and a variety of important gaps in securities, bankruptcy and commercial law, opportunities for opportunistic behavior, I have argued here, appear to be rich and alluring. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 5:31 am
Roman lawmaking was thus direct lawmaking, though with a voting system that heavily favored the rich, not representative lawmaking. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 9:44 am
In all of this Martin Luther King Jr. is a powerful example. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 7:58 am
And it seems that many of the old arguments about sticking up for each other, community, helping the little guy and fighting back against the rich and powerful interests, are no longer effective. [read post]
17 Aug 2024, 6:15 am
"—Financial Times "Unjust Debts synthesizes three decades of research into the system’s frustrating contradictions, helpfully summarizes the crux of the issue as bankruptcy’s ‘structural bias in favor of artificial persons’—i.e., corporations, nonprofits, and constructed entities explicitly designed to shield rich and powerful owners from the consequences of their misdeeds. [read post]
19 May 2015, 1:01 am
Goodwin sympathizes with Roosevelt, who believed the way to curb the power of the trusts was through detailed regulation. [read post]
