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The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

Economic Incentives Don’t Always Do What We Want Them To

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opinion/sunday/duflo-banerjee-economic-incentives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

More power to the people: Electricity adoption, technological change and social conflict

https://voxeu.org/article/electricity-adoption-technological-change-and-social-conflict

Silicon as a new storage material for the batteries of the future

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-silicon-storage-material-batteries-future.html

As Homelessness Surges in California, So Does a Backlash

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/us/california-homeless-backlash.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Eroding profit margins will push U.S. into recession in 2020, leading forecaster says

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/eroding-profit-margins-will-push-us-into-recession-in-2020-leading-forecaster-says-2019-10-08

Climate Change: New York AG Takes Exxon to Trial This Week

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/10/climate-change-new-york-ag-takes-exxon-to-trial-this-week-massachusetts-poised-to-follow.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

Trump Is Winning the Online War

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/opinion/trump-digital-campaign.html

Video: Panel w Krugman & Milanovic "After Piketty"

https://stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/after-piketty/
The People’s Money (Part 1)

Audio: 60 profitable Fortune 500 companies avoided all federal income taxes in 2018. How did they do it?

https://itep.org/4-3-billion-in-rebates-zero-tax-bill-for-60-profitable-corps-directly-related-to-loopholes/

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

https://itep.org/

Primary Goal of abusiness firm should be profit???

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/10/making-profit-should-not-now-be-the-primary-goal-of-a-business-being-net-zero-carbon-should-be.html

The greatest reshuffle of individual incomes since the Industrial Revolution Branko Milanovic

https://voxeu.org/article/greatest-reshuffle-individual-incomes-industrial-revolution

Why does time pass?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKKbkS_LOu4

From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013

From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013 https://voxeu.org/article/chinese-urban-elite-transformation-between-1988-and-2013?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=

Four Key Things You Should Know About Health Care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7baJBfWlg

A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players

https://www.thenation.com/article/mlb-moneyball-labor-unions/

The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns

Cyber Security Center at Cal State San Bernardino

https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/Cybersecurity-Needs-YOU.aspx

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

https://www.amazon.com/Meritocracy-Trap-Foundational-Inequality-Dismantles/dp/0735221995/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjwoebsBRCHARIsAC3JP0IVlU1rygE_77H8EjUwddefuUtx5BY4byZ5t7O-yhEm23I1P0cEN3QaAvh8EALw_wcB&hvadid=353044231654&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031476&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11492403552403665453&hvtargid=aud-646675773986%3Akwd-771125811113&hydadcr=20558_9427016&keywords=meritocracy+trap&qid=1570384626&sr=8-1

In Depth with Naomi Klein

https://www.c-span.org/video/?463950-1/depth-naomi-klein

Harvard’s Thrilling—and Pyrrhic—Affirmative Action Victory

https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-affirmative-action/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%2010022019&utm_term=daily

Weak vs Strong Sustainability Talking Points

http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Training/Indicators/WeakStrg.html

Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mobilization

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/09/coral-reefs-climate-change-and-mobilization.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29